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Jcapet are no more to be condemned hecaufe comment than 

 they wouîd be if employed by a paînter in the compofition 

 of a piëfure, Ought one mans garden to be deprived of a 

 happy objeB, becaufe that objeB bas been employed by ano^ 

 ther? T^he more we exaEl novelty, the fooner our tajfe will 

 be vitiated. Situations are every where fo varioiiSy that 

 there never can be a famenefs, while the difpofition of the 

 growid is Jiudied and followed, and every incident of view 

 turned to advantage. 



In the mean time how ricb, how gay, how piBurefque 

 the face of the country ! The démolition of walis laying open 

 each improvementy every journey is 7nade through a fuc^ 

 ceffion of piBures'y and even where ta/le is wanting in the 

 fpot improved, the gênerai view is embelUfied by variety. 

 If no relapfe to barbarifm, formality, and feclufiony is made, 

 what landfcapes will dignify every quarter of our ifland, 

 when the daily plantations that are making hâve attained 

 vénérable maturity ! A fpecimen of what our gardens will 

 be, may be feen at Petworth, where the portion of the 

 park neareji the houfe bas been allotted to the modem fiyle. 

 It is a garden of oaks two hundred years old. If there 

 is a fault in fo auguji a fragment of improved nature^ ît 

 is, that the fize of the trees are ont of ail proportion to 



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