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The moft natural inhabitants of parks are 

 fallow deer ; and very beautiful they are : but 

 flocks of fheep, and herds of cattle are more 

 ufeful ; and, in my opinion, more beautiful. 

 Sheep particularly are very ornamental in a 

 park. Their colour is juft that dingy hue, 

 which contrafts with the verdure of the 

 ground -, and the flakinefs of their wool is 

 rich, and pi&urefque. I mould wifh them 

 however to wear their natural livery ; not 

 patched with letters, nor daubed with red- 

 ochre. To fee the fide of a hill fpread with 

 groups of fheep or to fee them through 

 openings among the boles of trees, at a little 

 diftance, with a gleam of light falling upon 

 them, is very pi&urefque. 



As the garden, (or pie afure- ground, as it is 

 commonly called,) approaches nearer the 

 houfe, than the park, it takes of courfe a 

 higher polifh. Here the lawns are morn, 

 inftead of being grazed. The roughnefs of 

 the road is changed into an elegant gravel 

 walk ; and knots of flowers, and flowering 

 mrubs are introduced, yet blended with clumps 

 of foreft-trees, which conned: it with the park. 

 Single trees alfo take their ftation here with 

 great propriety. The fpreading oak, or elm, 



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