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Scotland, where the stone quarry, from which 

 the mansion was built, exhibits a composition 

 truly romantic. A rocky precipice, crowned 

 with trees, and reflected in the pool below, 

 whose sides are fringed with wood, is caught 

 under various combinations from a path, that 

 winds its devious way through the inequal- 

 ities of the excavation, from the bottom to 

 the top of the quarry. 



When, from any circumstance, spare earth 

 is to be disposed of in the pleasure ground, 

 it is usually applied to the filling up of any 

 hollows that may fortunately exist : whereas 

 it should be used to increase any indications 

 of undulating forms ; as even the smallest 

 variety of this kind is highly advantageous, 

 whether in the lawn, or in the plantations of 

 shrubs which surround it. It will be safer 

 for the unpractised eye to increase the exist- 

 ing varieties of the ground, rather than to 

 create new ones ; the arrangement of earth 

 for this latter purpose being an operation of 

 considerable difficulty, whereas a moderate 

 degree of caution cannot well fail in the 

 former. 



The fencing of plantations is a subject of 

 considerable difficulty, arising principally from 



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