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not heard this account of it, would think this 

 circular mount was not only a real one, but that 

 it had been actually scooped out of that hol- 

 low space which I have before mentioned. I 

 never yet met with any one who had walked in 

 this garden, who was not struck with that part 

 of it which I have here mentioned. As for my- 

 self, you will find by the account which I have 

 already given you, that my compositions in gar- 

 dening are altogether after the Pindaric man- 

 ner, and run into the beautiful wildness of na- 

 ture, without affecting the nicer elegancies of 

 art. What I am now going to mention will, 

 perhaps, deserve your attention more than any 

 thing I have yet said. I find that in the dis- 

 course which I spoke of at the beginning of my 

 letter, you are against filling an English garden 

 with evergreens ; and indeed I am so far of 

 your opinion that I can by no means think the 

 verdure of an evergreen comparable to that 

 which shoots out annually and clothes our trees 

 in the summer season. But I have often won- 

 dered that those who are like myself, and love 

 to live in gardens, have never thought of con- 

 triving a winter-garden, which would consist of 

 such trees only as never cast their leaves. We 

 have very often little snatches of sunshine and 

 fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of 

 the year ; and have frequently several days in 



