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guise the uniformity of the circuitous walk, but 

 which often interfere with greater effect. It is 

 at the least unnecessary in such a garden, but 

 plain gravel walks to every part are commonly 

 deemed to be indispensable ; they undoubtedly 

 are convenient, but it must also be acknowl- 

 edged, that though sometimes they adorn, yet, at 

 other times, they disfigure, the scenes through 

 which they are conducted. The proprietor of 

 the place, who visits these scenes at different 

 seasons, is most anxious for their beauty in fine 

 weather ; he does not feel the restraint to be 

 grievous, if all of them be not at all times equally 

 accessible, and a gravel walk perpetually before 

 him, especially when it is useless, must be irk- 

 some ; it ought not, therefore, to be ostenta- 

 tiously shown ; on many occasions it should be 

 industriously concealed. That it lead to the 

 capital points is sufficient ; it can never be 

 requisite along the whole extent of every scene ; 

 it may often skirt a part of them without appear- 

 ing, or just touch upon them and withdraw ; but 

 if it cannot be induced at all without hurting 

 them, it ought commonly to be omitted. 



The sides of a gravel walk must correspond, 

 and its course be in sweeps gently bending all 

 the way. It preserves its form, though con- 

 ducted through woods or along glades of the 

 most licentious irregularity. But a grass walk 



