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that Nature abhorred a straight one. 



H 



proceeded those 



meandering, serpentine, and undulating lines in all their work 

 which were unfortunately confirmed by Hogarth 

 dation of his imaginary Line of Beauty. 



recommen 



Thus 



we see road 



sweep 



o* 



d to 



a voi 



fences gracefully 



belts and 



the direct line to their object, 

 fancifully taking a longer course ; 



and 



plantations in useless curves, with a drive mean 



dering in parallel lines, which 



straight 



full as much out of nature as 



Tl 



uis has fashion 



ted a Belt 



introduced by Brown, into a D 

 more tedious than an avenue or 

 longer than a straight one. 



A Belt should consist of wood 

 wind to various points of view or 



or screen of plantation 



rive quite as monotonous and 

 vista, because a curved line is 



v 



, through which a road may 

 scenery may be shewn under 



circumstances of foreground; but a Drive should 



among the trees, and und 



th 



e 



shad 



e of their branch 



pec.ally where a few large old trees may help to vary the same 

 » of a plantation uniformly consisting of young saplings. 



y 



exv out of tlie Park 



