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Aunounces the habitation of fome 7nan of dîjiindiion. In other 

 places the total banijhment of ail particidar neatnefs imme- 

 diately about a houfe, which is frequently left gazing by 

 itfelf in the middle of a park, is a defeSi. Sheltered and 

 even clofe walks, in fo vcry uncertain a climate as ours, 

 are comforts ill exchanged for the few piBurefque days that 

 we enjoy : and whenever a family can purloin a ivarm and 

 even fomethijig of an old fafiioned garden from the landfcape 

 de/igncd for them by the undertaker in fafloion, without in- 

 terfering ijuith the piBiire, they will find fatisfaBions on 

 thofe days that do not invite franger s to corne and fee theîr 

 improvements. 



Fountains hâve with great reafon been banified from 



gardens as unnatural-y but it furprifes me that they bave 



not been allotted to their proper pofitioîis, to cities, towns, 



and the courts of great houfes, as proper accomp animent s to 



architecture , and as works of grandeur ifî themfelves, Theîr 



décorations admit the utmoft inve?îtion, and when the waters 



are thrown up to différent fages, and tumble over their 



border, nothing h as a more impofing or a more refreflnng 



found. A palace demands its external grâces and attributes^ 



as much as a garden* Fountaiiis and cypreffes peculiarly 



hecome buildings, and 7îo man can hâve been at Kome, and 



feen the vaft bafons of marble dafied with perpétuai cafcades 



in the area of St, Peter s, without retaining an îdea of 



tafie 



