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peculiar taste of each is gratified, in some 

 degree ; which leads to the obvious con- 

 clusion, that good taste is nearer akin to 

 utility than is generally imagined. It is 

 indeed next to impossible, that the mind 

 accustomed to consider the difference be- 

 tween right and wrong, can be truly sa- 

 tisfied with any thing that does not, in a 

 considerable degree, answer the purposes 

 for which it was first intended. When a 

 plantation, or a screen, requiring the fore- 

 go! ag properties,. has got into such a situ- 

 ation, that the wind and the eye meet 

 with but little obstruction in traversing it, 

 from one side to the other, much of its 

 beauty and utility is gone ; arid, tlipre- 

 fore, good taste disowns it. 



Now, as not only general taste, but the 

 nature of the thing itself, points out the 

 utility of shelter, it is, certainly, to be re* 

 gretted, that due attention is not paid to 

 make it permanent, in every place where 

 recpiired, so far as the soil will produce 



