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by some of the best authorities of the present 

 day: — 



Faultless on the other hand, is the landscape garden- 

 ing part of the park [Regent's], which also originated 

 with Mr. Nash, especially in the disposition of the 

 water. Art has here completely solved the difficult prob- 

 lem of concealing her operations under the appearance 

 of unrestrained nature. You imagine you see a broad 

 river flowing on through luxuriant banks, and going 

 oflf in the distance in several arms, while in fact you are 

 looking upon a small piece of standing though clear 

 water created by art and labor. So beautiful a landscape 

 as this with hills in the distance, surrounded by an en- 

 closure of magnificent houses, a league in circuit, is cer- 

 tainly a design worthy of one of the greatest capitals in 

 the world, and when the young trees are grown into 

 majestic giants will scarcely find a rival. In the execu- 

 tion of Mr. Nash's plan many old streets have been 

 pulled down, and during the last ten years more than 

 sixty thousand houses built in this part of the town. 

 It is, in my opinion, a peculiar beauty of these new 

 streets, that, though broad, they do not run in straight 

 lines, but make occasional curves which break the uni- 

 formity. 



It is interesting to follow the working of 

 Piickler's mind as he studies his subject, how the 

 principles of his art were formulating themselves 

 in his mind to be afterwards realized and actually 

 executed on his own place at Muskau where the 

 result can be seen to-day. Here is some keen 

 criticism of English scenery: — 



The beauty of the country and the extraordinary 

 neatness and elegance of every place through which my 

 road lay to-day struck me in a most agreeable manner 



