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Throughout the entire development of the design, the artist must ever 

 aim to entrap, as it were, the attention, by continual peeps at the principal 

 scenery of the neighbourhood or place, from every available point of view. 

 Openings should be made, without any appearance of design, by cutting down 

 trees and bushes wherever a pleasing object would present itself to the view. 

 Here, huts for shelter and resting places ought to be erected ; and rude open 

 seats, made of trunks and branches of trees, should be placed at the top of 

 every steep ascent, in order to accommodate all parties who may wish to avail 

 themselves of them. Dry caves, with seats inside, would also be in good 

 keeping ; and, where this kind of scenery is extensive, a comfortable and 

 convenient, yet unpretending, cottage would be by no means inappropriate, 

 as fatigued parties might there find the means of supplying themselves with 

 refreshments, and the pedestrian obtain somewhat of a change from the 

 theme of his solitary ramble. Such cottages should be rudely built of stone, 

 thatched, and only one story high, so as to have the appearance of age, and 

 altogether correspond with the general character of the scenery. 



Over any water, even if fordable, yet liable to be swollen by floods, a 

 bridge of rustic wood-work or stone would heighten the effect. If of the 

 latter material, several arches would be more characteristic than one or two 

 of larger span ; and whether many or few, both arches and battlements 

 should be simple, that when they have become grey by time, they may more 

 completely correspond with surrounding objects. I have sometimes noticed 

 in such scenery as this, in localities suitably enough selected, groups of figures 

 of banditti or other startling objects, or perhaps a hermit in his cave ; but I 

 could neither recommend efforts to effect such surprises, nor admire them 

 when effected. They are more grotesque than anything else, and are wholly 

 alien from the thoughts naturally engendered by a contemplation of the 

 operations of Creative goodness and power. 



