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and I should be guilty of injustice to the powers of the 

 Art which I have so long professed to cultivate. For this rea- 

 son I will refer to a nameless specimen of improvement in the 

 North of England; where a Villa, placed on the edge of a goose- 

 common, commanded a view of distant country, enriched with 



woods and gentlemen's seats; but the leading feature of the 

 landscape was a row of mean tenements, with some of those 

 places of worship too apt to disfigure the neighbourhood of all 



These white-washed scars in 



great manufacturing districts. 



modern landscape, form a melancholy contrast to the venerable 



remnants of edifices of former times, which are 



church 



an 



now suffered to moulder into ruins. 



The 



d sketch 



represents the advantage taken of an 

 act of Parliament to enclose a common, where the water, which 



stood in 



pparent 



now 



several small pools, was collected into an i 

 river; and the road, with all the unsightly objects, is 

 come a line of plantation, forming a pleasing foreground to the 

 richly wooded distance. 





