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avails itself in its progress of the several cir- 

 cumstances which belong to the enclosure it 

 surrounds, whether they be the rural appurte- 

 nances of a farm, or those more refined which 

 distinguish a paddock. 



But it has at the same time its inconveniences 

 and defects : its approach to the several points 

 is always circuitous, and they are thereby often 

 thrown to a distance from the house and from 

 each other ; there is no access to them across 

 the open exposure ; the way must constantly be 

 the same ; the view all along is into one open- 

 ing, which must be peculiarly circumstanced to 

 furnish within itself a sufficient variety, and the 

 embellishments of the walk are seldom import- 

 ant : their number is limited, and the little 

 space allotted for their reception admits only 

 of those which can be accommodated to the 

 scale and will conform to the character. This 

 species of garden, therefore, reduces almost to 

 a sameness all the places it is applied to ; the 

 subject seems exhausted ; no walk round a field 

 can now be very different from several others 

 already existing. At the best, too, it is but a 

 walk ; the fine scenery of a garden is wanting, 

 and that in the field, which is substituted in its 

 stead, is generally of an inferior character, and 

 often defective in connection with the spot 

 which commands it, by the intervention of the 



