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ment of the scenery we have been considering, 

 it may be useful to offer a few observations 

 upon this part of our subject. The line of 

 walk should, I conceive, be regulated by the 

 size and circumstances of the place. And, 

 first, of whatever extent the grounds may be, 

 I would never carry the walk round the 

 boundary ; nothing, as I have before ob- 

 served, is, to my feeling, so insipid as a long- 

 continued sweep : and the hanging perpetu- 

 ally on the boundary, by betraying the real 

 dimensions of the place, destroys all idea of 

 extent as effectually as it does that of variety. 

 Whoever has seen the pleasure-ground at 

 Caversham (laid out by Brown), cannot but 

 perceive what an improvement it would be 

 to wind the walk amongst the noble trees 

 and rich masses of shrubs, which now trails its 

 monotonous course by the side of the sunk 

 fence. 



A similar mistake by the same artist occurs 

 in the pleasure-grounds at Croome, where 

 there is no escape from the monotonous walk, 

 and where mai^nificent cedars, which should 

 have been grouped on an open lawn, are 

 choked l)y an uninterrupted line of ever- 

 greens, mixed with flowers equally misplaced. 



