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On the banks of the high parts of the meuse in 

 FRANCE, I have seen convents around which, not 

 surely from the rules of art or taste, but merely from 

 the natural feeling of mankind, almost every rule 

 here mentioned has been followed. 



Third I The third situation is that of a cham- 

 Situation. \ paign rich country, full of gentle in- 

 equalities. 



Such a country is perhaps the most agreeable; 

 it is generally the best cultivated. The sentiment 

 which it creates is cheerfulness; and tiierefore in a 

 garden in this country, the disposition and assemblage 

 should be such as may still farther carry on that sen- 

 timent. Perhaps instead of all other rules for such 

 a situation, it would be enough to say that KENT, 

 who beyond all others loved and made use of it, should 

 be studied and followed. 



That great designer made the grounds 1o rise 

 and fall more gently into one another, that even in 

 such a situation they naturally are inclined ^to do. 

 For this purpose he deepened the sinkings and raised 

 the swellings of the natural inequalities; these :ie 

 made to consist of winding surfaces, continually vary- 

 ing in their figures, lengths, and heights. The chief 

 beauty of this situation lies in its numerous inequali- 

 ties ; and therefore, to mark those better, on the 

 tops of the small unevennesses he planted single trees ; 

 and on the summits of the rising grounds, clumps of 

 them; but in the slopes of the one, or on the sides of 

 the other, neitlier single trees, nor clumps, were to 

 be seen; the sinking of these first, and the sides of 

 these last, on the contrary, he smoothed into the 

 finest shaven turf. All the rich prospects ot the 

 country he threw open, so as to make them in ii man- 

 ner a part of the garden. If a walk was to be !ed 

 along a summit, he made it run in the form of an 

 open terrace, to command all the prospects aroinid ; 

 if to the top of a hill he led the walk mounting round 

 llie whole of it, so as to make the prosj eet vary at 

 almost every step ; if it was lo be led along the side 



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