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nected with scenery. The sea is ahvays 

 grand; but it is the varying circumstances of 

 navigation which imparts cheerfulness to the 

 scene. This will be obvious to every one 

 who has observed the contrast between Mud- 

 diford and Dover ; as also in many other 

 places on the sea-side. 



This necessity of Hfe and motion to con- 

 stitute cheerfulness is manifested in several 

 places laid out by Brown, where a lawn, sur- 

 rounded b^ a sunk fence, and closed on two 

 sides with corresponding rows of trees like 

 blinkers, being left in a state of nature, but 

 unoccupied by cattle, throws a veil of mono- 

 tonous dulness over the scene, which no 

 ray of cheerfulness can penetrate. Such was 

 the case at Woolterton, in Norfolk, and at 

 Kirtlino-ton Park, near Woodstock. 



If there be any truth in the above observ- 

 ations, it follows, that to plant out or remove 

 such circumstances is a great mistake ; and 

 yet how frequently do we see a formal clump 

 of larch or fir placed, either to hide a keeper's 

 lodge, or to conceal a labourer's cottage, or to 

 exclude the scattered hamlet, which we have 

 been considerinjj so essential, in some in- 

 stances, to the cheerfulness of the scene. 



