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The phlegm of a citizen is as much seen in cut- 

 ling down the pleasing inequahties of ground, and 

 throwing his whole garden into the dead flat of a 

 bowling green, as the love of art and show and ex- 

 pense of LOUIS the XIV. is to be seen in the unnatu- 

 ral wonders of Versailles. 



Now as nature has created these sentiments, 

 upon the view of these situations; and further has 

 created a love in different tempers for one or other 

 of them ; it would appear to be the perfection of 

 art, to second these her operations. For this reason, 

 the natural objects must be heightened in such a man- 

 ner, as to mark more distinctly the genius of the 

 situation, where it has one ; and next, the artificial 

 objects brought into it, must be such as create senti- 

 ments similar to those which are created by it. This 

 last rule admits only of this one exception ; that 

 where the sentiment created by the natural situation 

 is not agreeable in itself, the aim of the objects 

 brought into it, ought to be to soften and temper 

 that sentiment. 



'J'he objects, either natural or artificial, which 

 rnler into the composition of a garden, are chiefly 

 four : buildings, grounds, water, and trees. 



Let us now observe of what use these instru- 

 ments may be made, according to the four capital si- 

 tuations in nature. 



First I The slenderness of an ionic or corin- 

 Sifuatmn. \ thian pillar, placed at the side of a 

 va^t mountain, would create a lidiculous comparison; 

 and therefore in a highland situation, the principal 

 liouse should be in the form of a castle. The ele- 

 gance and fineness of execution belonging to the 

 GRECIAN architecture, would be here totally mis- 

 placed. If in that castle, added to the greatness and 

 solid appearance of the main building, there should 

 shoot up in the middle a gothic tower, pierced and 

 of hardy execution, a sentiment similar to the senti- 

 ment of terror, added to that of grandeur, would still 

 more correspond to the natural genius of the place. 



