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CHAP. VI. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE NOT TO BE ON THE SIDE OF 



THE LIVING ROOMS. ALTERING THE ENTRANCE. 



TURNING THE APPROACH. REMOVING HEDGE-ROWS. 



CAUTION NECESSARY. KITCHEN GARDEN. ON OPEN- 

 ING SCENERY. CHEERFULNESS AS CONNECTED WITH 



SCENERY. BLUE DISTANCE ONE GREAT SOURCE OF IT. 



A VILLAGE OR HAMLET CONDUCIVE TO IT. MIS- 

 TAKE IN HIDING SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES. PLANTING. 



CHARACTERS OF TREES. SCOTCH FIR. VARIOUS 



OPINIONS OF IT. TREES IN GROUPS. LEVELLING AND 



SMOOTHING. HYDE PARK. FENCES. LODGES. 



BRIDGES. VILLAGES. 



In the arrangement of the foregoing chapters, 

 I have endeavoured, as far as I have been 

 able, to keep the connection free from inter 

 ruption ; to effect which I have reserved 

 several insulated questions, as they may be 

 termed, for a miscellaneous discussion : and, 

 though the bearing of some of them may, 

 perhaps, have been already partially noticed, 

 yet, having, in the Introduction, requested 

 the reader's indulgence for such repetition, 

 and utility being the end proposed, I will 



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