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meet the eye. While, therefore, elements of scenery 

 of this class (which may, for the present purpose, be 

 distinguished as picturesque, sylvan scenery) would 

 both acquire and impart value from their contrast 

 with the simpler elements of open pastoral landscapes; 

 their effect, by tending to withdraw the mind to an 

 indefinite distance from the objects associated with 

 the streets and walls of a city, would be of the same 

 character. 



"The question of adjusting and localizing these two 

 classes of landscape elements to the various elements 

 of the topography of the park next occurs, the study 

 of which must begin with the consideration that the 

 park is surrounded by an artificial wall twice as high 

 as the great wall of China composed of urban build- 

 ings. Wherever this should appear across a meadow 

 view the imagination would be checked abruptly at 

 short range. Natural objects were thus required to 

 be interposed, which, while excluding the buildings 

 as much as possible from view, would leave an un- 

 certainty as to the occupation of the space beyond, 

 and establish a horizon line composed as much as 

 possible of verdure. No one looking into a closely 

 grown wood can be certain that at a short distance 

 back there are not glades or streams, or that a more 

 open disposition of trees does not prevail. 



"A range of high woods, or of trees so disposed as to 

 produce an effect when seen from a short distance 

 looking outwardly from the central parts of the park, 

 of a natural woodside, must be regarded more nearly 



