i8o ftbe (Barren 



than two trees, sometimes of four or five, and 

 now and then in larger clusters ; an irregular 

 waving line, issuing from some little crowd, 

 loses itself in the next ; or a few scattered trees 

 drop in a more distant succession from the one 

 to the other. The intervals, winding here like 

 a glade, and widening there into broader open- 

 ings, differ in extent, in figure, and direction ; 

 but all the groups, the lines, and the intervals 

 are collected together into large general clumps, 

 each of which is at the same time both compact 

 and free, identical and various. The whole is a 

 place wherein to tarry with secure delight, or 

 saunter with perpetual amusement. 



The grove at Bsher Place was planted by the 

 same masterly hand ; but the necessity of ac- 

 commodating the young plantation to some 

 large trees which grew there before, has con- 

 fined its variety. The groups are few and 

 small ; there was not room for larger or for 

 more ; there were no opportunities to form 

 continued narrow glades between opposite 

 lines ; the vacant spaces are therefore chiefly 

 irregular openings spreading every way, and 

 great differences of distance between the trees 

 are the principal variety ; but the grove winds 

 along the bank of a large river, on the side and 



