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out by Mr. Eyrc an imitât or of Bridg^nan, It contains 

 three-and-t'Wenty acres, theri reckoned a confidcrable portion, 



I cal! a funk fence the Icading Jiep, for thefe reafons. 

 No Jooner was tbis fimple enchantment tnadcy than îevelling, 

 mowing and roUing, foHoived. Tbe contiguous groiind of the 

 park without the funk fence was to be harmonized with the 

 lawn within ; and the garden in its tiirn was to be fet 

 free from its prim regularity, that it jnight ajfort with the 

 wilder country without, T^ h e funk fence afcertained thefpecifc 

 garden, but that it might not draw too obvious a Une of 

 diflinBion between the ncat and the rude, the contiguous 

 out-lying parts came to be incîuded i?i a kind of gênerai de- 

 fgn : and when nature was taken into the plan, under im- 

 provejnents, every fep that was 7nade, pointed out new 

 beauties and infpired new ideas, At that moment appeared 

 Kent, painter enough to tafte the charms of landfcape, bold 

 and opinionafive enough to dare and to diâlate, and bor?i 

 with a genius to Jlrike out a great fyjlem from the twilight 

 of imperfeèl ejjays, He leaped the fence, and faw that ail 

 nature was a garden. He felt the delicious contrajî of hill 

 and 'Valley changing imperceptibly into- each other, tajîed the 

 beauty of the gentle fwell, or concave fcoop, and remarked 

 how loofe groves crowned an eafy eminence with happy orna" 

 ment, and while they called in the dijiant view between their 



graceful 



