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" fore, may select a view between any two of 

 " the clumps ; and as a very slight alteration 

 " in his expeditious art turns them into 

 " groups, the whole may form a very pleasing 

 " landscape : again, as only two of the clumps 

 " would appear, no one could suspect, from 

 " such a picture or drawing, that there were 

 " other clumps which strongly marked the 

 " old line of the avenue from every part 

 " where they were seen. All this is perfectly 

 " fair in the painter, with reference to his 

 " own art : but were he employed to show 

 " what would be the future effect of breaking 

 " an avenue into clumps, it would, in the 

 " same degree, be unfair ; it would, in fact, 

 " be a deception, and tend to deceive his 

 " employer. Yet this is precisely what Mr. 

 " Repton has done, for the purpose of show- 

 " ing how an avenue may be broken with 

 " good effect. He has, in one plate, repre- 

 " sented the avenue on which the operation 

 " is to be performed, at its length, and of 

 " course describing the straight line ; and, 

 " in common justice, he ought to have given 

 " the same view of it when broken : but he 

 " well knew what a figure his clumps would 

 " make when the straight line was dotted 



