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of that masterly production of Mr. Walpole's pen, his His- 

 tory of the Modern Taste in Gardening. He observes, that 

 " a pen guided by so masterly a hand, must ever be produc- 

 tive of information and entertainment, -when employed upon 

 a subject so truly interesting. Desirous of conveying to our 

 readers all the information which we can compress, with pro- 

 priety, within the limits of our plan, we wished to have given 

 the substance of this valuable paper; but finding it already in 

 the language of simplicity, and being aware of the mischiefs 

 which generally ensue in meddling with the productions of 

 genius, we had only one alternative: either wholly to tran- 

 scribe, or wholly to reject." Mr. Marshall, alluding to the 

 above work of his, says, " Wheatley, Mason, and Nature, 

 with some Experience, and much Observation, are the prin- 

 cipal sources from which this part of our work was drawn; it 

 was planned, and in part written, among the magnificent 

 scenes of nature, in Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, and 

 Gloucestershire, where the rich and the romantic are happily 

 blended, in a manner unparalleled in any other part of the 

 island." In this same work is preserved, Mr. Gray's letter 

 on the scenery of Grasmere Water. His descriptions of 

 many trees and shrubs are extremely interesting ; and he has 

 rendered them more so by his frequent quotations from Mr. 

 Hanbury. He also published, in 8vo. The Rural Economy 

 of the Southern Counties; 2 vols. — of the Midland Counties, 

 2 vols. — of Gloucestershire, 2 vols. — of Norfolk, 2 vols. — of 

 Yorkshire, 2 vols. — Agriculture of the Southern Counties, 

 2 vols. — Minutes of Agriculture — and a Review of the Land- 

 scape, a didactic poem — and of an Essay on the Picturesque. 

 The Encyclop. of Gardening, after relating varied informa- 

 tion respecting him, says, that he " finally retired to a consi- 

 derable property he possessed in his native county, in the 

 Vale of Cleveland, in 1808, where he died, at an advanced 

 age, in 1819. He was a man of little education, but of a 

 strong and steady mind: and pursued, in the most consistent 



