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eye and the mind are not always confined to 

 one tract: they expatiate at times, and have 

 been relieved before they returned to it. An- 

 other expedient, the very reverse of this, may 

 now and then be put in practice : it is to con- 

 tract, instead of enlarging, the plan ; to carry 

 the walk, and in some part of its course, directly 

 into the field, or, at the most, to secure it from 

 cattle ; but to make it quite simple, omit all its 

 appendages and drop every idea of a garden. 

 If neither of these nor any other means be used 

 to break the length of the way, though the 

 enclosures should furnish a succession of scenes, 

 all beautiful, and even contrasted to each other, 

 yet the walk will introduce a similarity between 

 them. This species of garden, therefore, seems 

 proper only for a place of a very moderate 

 extent ; if it be stretched out to a great length, 

 and not mixed with other characters, its same- 

 ness hurts that variety, which it is its peculiar 

 merit to discover. 



But the advantages attending it upon some, 

 and the use of it on so many occasions, have 

 raised a partiality in its favor, and it is often 

 carried round a place where the whole enclosure 

 is garden; the interior openings and communi- 

 cations furnish there a sufficient range, and 

 they do not require that number and variety of 

 appendages which must be introduced to dis- 



