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nre formally uniform, and wivaned /fUt with regard to, 



nature, it feems as much avoldedy m in the fquares and ob^ 

 longs, andfirait Unes of our ancejîcyrs. An artificial perpen^ 

 dîcular rock Jî art in g out of a fiât plain, and conne^ed witb 

 notbing, often pîerced through in varions places with oval hol^ 

 lows, bas no more pretenjion to be deemed natiiral than a lineal 

 terrafs or a parterre. The late Mr. Jofepb Spencc, who had 

 hoth tafie and zealfor the prefent fiyle, was fo perfuaded of 

 tbe Chinefe emperors pleafure-ground being laid out on princi- 

 fies refembling ours, that he tranfiated a?id publified, iinder 

 ibe name of fr Harry Beaumont, a particular account of 

 that inclofure from the colleBion of tbe letters of the Jefuits» 

 I bave looked it over, and except a determined irreguiarity, 

 canfind notbing in it that gives me any idea of attejttion bei7ig 

 faid to nature. It is of vafi circumference and contains 200 

 palaces, befdes as many contiguous for tbe eunucbs, ail gilt, 

 fainted and varnijhed. Tibère are raifed hills from 20 to 60 

 feet high, Jîreatns and lakes, and one of tbe latterfive miles 

 round, l'hefe waters are pajfed by bridges — but even their 

 "bridges mufi not be firait—they ferpentize as much as tbs 

 rivulets, and are fometimes fo long as to be furnijhed witb 



refiing 



