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that is in the strictest harmony with the 

 mansion : and though we cannot but occa- 

 sionally regret the loss of some deep glade, 

 by the intervention of a long line of trees ; 

 yet, owing to the number of these lines, and 

 the variety of their situations, as well as of 

 their length, many pleasing groups and 

 happy combinations are produced as you pass 

 through them. But where shall we find any 

 grandeur, beauty, or variety, in the oval and 

 circular clumps and plantations of the outer 

 park, scattered here and there with no refer- 

 ence to each other, or the general character 

 and scenery of the place — 



" Marring fair Nature's lineaments divine ? " 



Normington, in the same neighbourhood, ex- 

 hibits a similar instance (though on a smaller 

 scale) of the deformity of those fine figures, 

 the oval and the circle, when applied to 

 plantation. 



Although the whole tenor of the autho- 

 rities subjoined is in direct opposition to the 

 circular system, a few of the passages which 

 bear more immediately on the subject may 

 be selected from them. 



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