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marked intricacy and variety must in general be sacrificed. 

 In an avenue, for instance, sudden inequalities of ground, 

 with wild groups of trees and bushes, which are the orna- 

 ments of forest scenery, would not accord with the pre- 

 vailing character. In the same manner where a regular 

 street or a square is to be built, all inequalities of ground, 

 all old buildings, however picturesque, will injure that 

 symmetry of the whole, which must not, except on extra- 

 ordinary occasions, be sacrificed to particular detail. 

 Now, in a village all details, whether of inequality of 

 ground, of trees and bushes, or of old buildings, are not 

 only in character, but serve as indications where and in 

 what manner new buildings may be placed so as at once 

 to promote both variety and connection. 



" There is no scene where neatness and picturesqueness, 

 simplicity and intricacy, can be so happily blended as in 

 a village." 



These suggestions are applicable to multitudes of cases 

 where new villages are to be laid out on sites comprising 

 inequalities of surface, or natural features of an attractive 

 character which might be made to contribute incalculably 

 to the beauty of the town by conferring upon it the 

 expression of rural quiet and natural ease, which consti- 

 tute the charm of such a place, in distinction from the 

 necessary formality of the city. 



But what would Sir Uvedale, or any man of cultivated 

 taste, think of the " formality and insipidity " of a western 

 village, in which so far as possible every inequality of 

 surface is made smooth, every street made straight, the 

 houses placed on a line, and the natural growth of trees 



