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for the purpose of deception (when all is done we are 

 seldom deceived), but to preserve the continued 

 surface entire. 



"If where no union is intended, a line of separation 

 is disagreeable, it must be disgusting when it breaks 

 the connexion between the several parts of the same 

 piece of ground. That connexion depends on the 

 junction of each part to those about, and on the relation 

 of every part to the whole. To complete the former, 

 such shapes should be contiguous as most readily 

 unite, and the actual division between should be 

 anxiously concealed. If a swell descends upon a 

 level; if a hollow sinks from it, the level is an absolute 

 termination and a little run marks it distinctly. To 

 cover that run, a short sweep at the foot of the swell, 

 a small rotundity at the entrance to the hollow, must 

 be interposed. In every instance when ground 

 changes its direction, there is a point where the 

 change is effected and that point should never appear. 

 Some other shapes, uniting easily with both extremes, 

 must be thrown in to conceal it. But there must be 

 no uniformity even in these connexions; if the same 

 sweep be carried all around the bottom of a swell, the 

 same rotundity all around the top of a hollow, 

 though the junction be perfect, yet the art by which 

 it is made is apparent, and art must never appear. 

 The manner of concealing the separation should itself 

 be disguised, and different degrees of cavity or rotund- 

 ity, different shapes and dimensions to the little 

 parts, thus dignified by degrees; and those parts 



