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With refpect to proportion, the detached 

 clump muft not incroach too much on the 

 dignity of the wood, it aids -, but muft 

 obferve a proper fubordination. A large tract 

 of country covered with wood, will admit 

 feveral of thefe auxiliary clumps of different 

 dimenfions. But if the wood be of a fmaller 

 fize, the clumps alfo muft be fmaller, and 

 fewer. 



With regard to the general form of the 

 larger clump, we obferved that in a Jingle 

 tree, we expected elegance in the parts. In 

 the fmaller clumps this idea was relinquifhed, 

 and in it's room we expected a general contrajl 

 in trunks, branches, and foliage. But as the 

 clump becomes larger, and recedes in the 

 Jandfcapes, all thefe plealing contrafts are loft, 

 and we are fatisfied with a general form. No 

 regular form is pleafing. A clump on the 

 fide of a hill, or in any fituation, where 

 the eye can more eafily inveftigate it's fhape, 

 muft be circumfcribed by an irregular line ; 

 in which it is required that the undulations both 

 at the bafe, and fummit of the clump fhoulcl be 

 ftrongly marked; as the eye probably has a 

 diftinct view of both. But if it be feen only 

 on the top of a hill, or along the diftant 



horizon, 



