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dity at the entrance of a hollow must be 

 interposed. In every instance, when ground 

 changes its direction, there is a point where 

 the change is effected, and that point should 

 never appear; some other shapes, uniting 

 easily with both extremes, must be thrown 

 'in to conceal it. But there must be no 

 uniformity even in these connections : if 

 the same sweep be carried all round the 

 bottom of a swell, the same rotundity all 

 round the top of a hollow, though the 

 junction be perfect, yet the art by which it 

 is made is apparent ; and art must never 

 appear. The manner of concealing the 

 separation should itself be disguised ; and 

 different degrees of cavity or rotundity, 

 different shapes and dimensions to the 

 little parts, thus distinguished by degrees ; 

 and those parts breaking, in one place more, 

 in another less, into the principal forms 

 which are to be united, produce that va- 

 riety with which all nature abounds, and 

 without which ground cannot be natural."* 

 Allowing, for the present, the justice of 

 the theory here laid down, what possible 



* Observations on Modern Gardening, p. 8. 



