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but in the winter this is no fence ; and while the ice remains 

 they must either be kept out by a temporary line of hurdles, or 

 driven away into a different part of the park ; otherwise in one 

 fatal night a herd of deer, or a drove of bullocks, will destroy 



oduce of years in a shrubbery, pleasure-ground, or llower- 



the m 



garden. 



The following expedient 



d to me verj 



% 



on 



considering the view from the windows at Dagenham in Essex, 

 a seat of Sir Thomas Neave, Bart. The Landscape consists of 

 a Park wooded sufficiently, and the distance presents a pleas- 

 ing ofFskip; but the most conspicuous feature is a large circular 

 pond or pool, with naked banks, from which the cattle are ex- 

 eluded by a hurdle, to prevent their poaching the clay shores. 



die i 



very 



offensive; but it i 



rend 



ere 



The sight of this 



doubly so, by being reflected in the water, where it 



still more conspicuous by its opposition to the sky. It has long 



ecomes 



been matter of doubt 



differenc 



of 



opi 



9 



whether it 



would not be advisable to drain off the water, and make a dry 

 valley or dell of this unsightly pool, which from its situation 

 reflects nothing but the sky. Yet there is something so cheer- 

 ful in the glitter of Water, that we must always give it up with 



or badly shaped: it was there- 



reluctance, 



owever 



ill 



ace 



fore decided to preserve this pool, and to make it an ornamental 

 part of the dressed ground near the house. 



In the stiff clay soil of Essex there is great objection to a 

 mitting cattle to tread down or poach the margin of a piece of 



and immediately opposite to the windows; yet 



water 



near 





