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deformed our views. Sometimes indeed the 

 paling of parks, and forefts is picturefque, 

 where it runs winding round a hill, and appears 

 again perhaps in fome oppofite direction j but 

 in general, it is an unpleafmg object; and 

 what in adorned fcenery we fhould wifh to 

 hide. Indeed all divifions of property are great 

 nuifances to the piclurefque eye, which loves 

 to range at large ; and it adds peculiar beauty 

 to the foreft, that in general the grand lines 

 of nature, and various fwelling of the ground, 

 are unbroken by thefe intrufions, aud have their 

 full play, and undulation. In remote diftances, 

 hedge-rows, pales, and other objects, offen- 

 five on the fpot, become one rich blended 

 furface. And yet, even on the fpot, winding 

 lanes, with full-grown hedges on each fide, 

 are often beautiful. It is clipping^ and making, 

 as they phrafe it, which ruin the piclurefque 

 idea. Utility is always counteracting beauty. 

 No fooner is the hedge in perfection, than 

 it is deflroyed*. 



The 



* If the reader wifh to know an ancient mode of making 



hedges, he will find it, as follows, in the fifth book of Q. 



Curtius. " Having planted twigs very clofe in the fituation they 



A wiflied, 



