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tho in many places artificially, and formally, 

 planted, contains great variety of ground. 

 The improvements of the duke of Cumberland, 

 were magnificent, rather than in a ftile fuitable 

 to a foreft. All formalities mould have been, 

 as much as poffible, avoided ; and the whole 

 formed into noble lawns and woods, with 

 views introduced, where they could be, into 

 the country. The great avenue to Windfor- 

 caftle, tho in a ftile of great formality, is 

 however in it's kind fo noble a piece of fcenery, 



that we mould not wifh to fee it deftroyed. 



Befides great numbers of red, and fallow-deer, 

 this park was in the duke's time, much fre- 

 quented by wild turkies > the breed of which 

 he encouraged. It could hardly have had a 

 more beautiful decoration. Birds are among 

 the moft picturefque objects : both their forms, 

 and plumage make them fo ; yet they are ge- 

 nerally fo diminutive, that, beautiful as they are, 

 they have little effect. But the turkey is both 

 a large bird; and being gregarious, forms 

 groups, which become objects of confequence. 

 It's fhape alfo is picturefque j and all it's 

 actions. It's colour alfo, efpecially if it be 

 of the bright copper, varying in the fun-beam, 

 is more beautiful, than the plumage of any 



other 



