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When tbe cujlom of making fquare gardens înclofed wltb 

 ivails ivas thus ejiablifiedy to the exclufion of nature and 

 * profpeBi pomp and folitude combîned to c ail for fomething 

 that might enrich and enliven the infipid and unanimated 

 partition. Fountainsy firji invent ed for ufe, which grandeur 

 loves to difguife and throw out of the quejîion, received em^ 

 bellifiments from coftly marbks, and at lajl to contradiSi 

 utilityt toffed their ivajie of waters into air in fpouting co- 

 lumns. Art y in the hands of rude man, had at firJi heen 

 made a fuccedaneum to nature ; in the hands of ojlentatious 

 wealth, it became the means of oppofng nature \ and the more 

 it traverfed the march of the lutter, the more nobility thought. 

 its poiver ivas demonjirated. Canals meafured by the Une 

 were introduced in lieu of maandri?ig Jlreams, and terrajfes 

 were hoijîed aloft in oppofition to the facile Jlopes that tm^ 

 perceptibly imite the valley to the hill. Balujîrades defended 

 thefe precipitate and dangerous élévations, and fiights ofjîeps 

 rejoined them to the fubjacent fat from which the terrafs 

 had deen dug. Vafes and fculpture were added to thefe 

 unneceffary balco?iies, and Jiatues furnijhed the Ufelefs fpot 

 with mimic reprefentations of the excludedfons ofmen. Thus 



difficulty 



* It was not uncommon, after the clreumadjacent country had beenjhut out, ta 

 endeavour to rtcover it hy ra'ifmg large mounti of earth to peep over the walls 

 of the garden. 



