FRAGMENT XVII. 









OF 



GARDEN NEAR OPORTO. 





TO 



HARRIS, ESQ 





SIR 



9 



When I first received the honour of your letter, 

 desiring me to furnish a plan for the improvement of Ground 



belonging to a Villa in Portugal, I doubted whether your 



pondent from that 



an undertaking possibl 



could 



e m earnest in su 



yet th 



e 



ment induced me to attend to this 



novelty 



pposmg 



o 



f th 



e expen 



request: and notwithstand 



mg all the difficulties of the subject, I have endeavoured to com 



ply with your friend's wish 



t( 



she 



that I should furnish a plan for 



™ng a specimen of English Gardening in a foreign country 

 The difficulties to which I allude are these 



99 



First 



of it 



My not having 



seen the 



pot, or any drawing 



Secondly, My never having been in that country, y et from 



sketches furnished by those who have been th 

 general ideas of the face of the country near th 

 not of the spot itself. 



some 



I had 



pot, though 





