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defect, without too great a sacrifice of respectable tree* 

 belt, we must seek for new beauties elsewl 

 to different expedients, to shew the 



in the 

 and have resort 



3 situation to advanlage. 

 with views only towards the inte- 

 admiration, after the first two or 



circular drive round a place 



rior, has little to excite our 



three rounds. It is not sufficient to see the water, and the 1; 



group of trees in the lawn ; they are still always out of 



^ w 



reach 



we long to enjoy 



of the 



see them, but actually to be on the banks of the 

 under the shade of the trees: and, like Rasselas 



we wish not only to 



water, and 



i the happy 



vale of Abyssinia, we regret the confinement of this belt, and 

 should rejoice at emancipation from the magic circle by which 



we are restrained 



Yet the exercise and pi 



o 



such 



a 



length of walk is an object not to be hastily relinquished 



There are now but few places where the surrounding belt- 



fort! 



planted in Brown s time, have not been cut dow 

 of the timber, or the ground cleared for the sake of the pastu 

 but where they exist, especially in a flat country, the trees h; 

 acquired such height as to exclude all distant view: and cc 



sake 



sequently an air of confinement is produced, which was not 

 intended in Browns original belts. Two instances of this kind 

 have occurred to me in the neighbourhood of Ealing and Acton; 

 where a pleasing offskip, with wooded distance, and such fea- 

 tures as the Pagoda and Palace of Kew, were totally hid by the 





lofty trees which formed the belt. In one of them an attempt 

 had been made to break the continuity, but some few tall trees 

 that were left, produced more mischief than all the others before 



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