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on the side of Ethiopia. 3d. Hiddekel, towards Assyria. 

 4th. The Euphrates. 



The modern style of gardening, in the place of the reg- 

 ular geometric forms, and the right angles, and right lines, 

 has substituted all that is more consistent with nature, and 

 with beauty. Celebrated English writers have ascribed 

 this important change in the style of gardening in Eng- 

 land, to the ideas of Lord Bacon, as original ; but especi- 

 ally to those ideas which have been more latterly promul- 

 gated by Milton and others. I finish, therefore, by se- 

 lecting the following perfect description of a garden 

 from him : 



" Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, 

 As with a rural mound, the champain head 

 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides 

 With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, 

 Access denied; and over head upgrew 

 Insuperable height of loftiest shade, 

 Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, 

 A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend 

 Shade above shade, a woody theatre 

 Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops 

 The verd'rous wall of Paradise upsprung ; 

 Which to our general sire gave prospect large 

 Into his nether empire neighboring round. 

 And, higher than that wall, a circling row 

 Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, 

 Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue, 

 Appeared, with gay enamelled colors mixed : 

 On which the sun more glad impressed his beams 

 Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow 

 When God hath showered the earth ; so lovely seemed 

 That landscape : " 



" Southward through Eden went a river large, 

 Nor chang'd his course, but through the shaggy hill 

 Pass'd underneath ingulf 'd ; for God had thrown 

 That mountain as his garden mould high raised 

 Upon the rapid current, which, through veins 

 Of porous earth with kindly thirst updrawn, 

 Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill 

 Watered the garden : thence united fell 

 Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, 

 Which from his darksome passage now appears, 

 And now, divided into four main streams, 

 Runs diverse, wand'ring many a famous realm 

 And country." * * 



* " Thus was this place 

 . A happy rural seat of various view ; 

 * Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; 



