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beauties, that will meet and blend in harmony, receive 

 his lesson from nature in her own wilds. Let him look 

 upon her countenance, before it has been disfigured by 

 a barbarous art, to acquire his ideas of beauty and pro 

 priety, and he will never mar her features, by adding 

 gems that do not harmonize with their native expres 

 sion, plucked from the bosom of a foreign clime. Then, 

 although he may not sit under the shade of the palm or 

 the myrtle, or roam among sweet-scented orange 

 groves, in the climate of northern fruits and northern 

 flowers, he needs no foreign trees or shrubbery to deco 

 rate his grounds, or adapt them to his pleasures. In a 

 forest of his own native pines, he may find an arbor in 

 summer and a shelter in winter, as odoriferous as a 

 grove of cinnamon and myrtles ; and the fruits of his 

 own orchards will yield him a repast more savory than 

 the produce of the Indies. 



