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Wliitely, and in several Poems. Pain's Hill near Cobharti in 

 Surrey exists as it was formed by INIr. Hamilton, ninth son of 

 the sixth Earl of Abercorn, Esher and Clermont were both 

 created by K(Mit, the latter is still kept up in tolerable style, but 

 the iirst is extinct. ^Vobunl Farm ncarChetsey in Surrey, also 

 arose at the period we are consiriering, being formed by P. 

 Southcote Esq, as a specimen of the Fernie ornee, which he ia- 

 ventod. It is described by Whately and G, Mason, but no 

 longer exists. 



Sir W. Chamber's Dissertations on Oriental Gardening ap- 

 peared in 1774; the English Garden by Mason ia 1772; Shen- 

 stone's Unconnected thoughts on Landscape Gardening in 17Glr; 

 G. Mason's Essay on Design in Gardening in 17GB ; Walpole'a 

 Dissertation on modern Gardening in 1770 ; and the same year 

 gave birth to Whately's Observations on IModern Gardening 



These publications, which all advocate the imitation of the 

 scenes of Nature which delight the spectator by their grandeur 

 or their beauty, contributed much to strengthen and extend the 

 new taste for design. Whately's is decidedly the best, and is 

 the tirst Prose work which lays down rules and directions for 

 Landscape Gardening ; Pope had led the way in Poetry ; and 

 Mason in blank verse. 



The chief Garden Designers who flourished about the period 

 in which these pubUcatious appeared were Wright, Brown, 

 Holland and Eames. 



Of Wright I know nothing more than is slated of him by G. 

 Mason,wliich is, that his birth and education were above plebeian 

 that he was a good draftsman ; and never contracted to execute 

 his designs. He planned Lord Harrington's seat at Becket 

 near Farringdon ; Stoke near Bristol ; the Terrace and River at 

 Oatlaads, &c 



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