122 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



" hurt as if a handful of sand were flung into 

 " them, the sufferers are too apt to vent their 

 " resentment in the worst of wishes against 

 " the devisers and perpetrators of such enor- 

 " mities. We have seen a brotherhood of 

 " beautiful hills, the summits of which, while 

 " they remained unplanted, must have formed 

 " a fine undulating line, now presenting 

 " themselves with each a circle of black fir 

 " like a skimming-dish on its head, com- 

 " bined too^ether with loner narrow lines of the 

 ** same complexion, like a chain of ancient 

 " fortifications, consisting of round towers 

 " flanking a strait curtain, or rather like a 

 " range of college caps connected by a broad 

 " black riband. Other plantations, in the 

 " awkward angles which they have been 

 " made to assume, in order that they might 

 " not trespass upon some edible portion 

 " of grass land, have come to resemble 

 *' Uncle Toby's bowling-green transported to 

 " a northern hill side. Here you shall see a 

 *• solitary mountain with a great black patch 

 " stuck on its side, like a plaster of Bur- 

 *' gundy pitch ; and there another, where the 

 " plantation, instead of gracefully sweeping 

 " down to its feet, is broken short off" in mid 



