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risUing trees and underwood ; the ground on 

 each side beingaflat meadow as before. This 

 total fringe, though in many respects very 

 bcautifidrthe owner might justly think too 

 uniform and absolute a screen. He there- 

 fore would observe what parts of it should 

 be thinned or cut down, in order to let in 

 the most interesting circumstances of the 

 ground behind, whether trees, buildings, 

 distant hills, or other objects ; he might in 

 some places smooth and slope the banks, 

 though not in too gardener-like a style; 

 and in others, allow the trees he had cut 

 down to spring up again, as a present 

 rich covering, which might afterwards be 

 thinned and grouped at pleasure. In ex- 

 amining the banks on which this fringe 

 was oTowing, he might perhaps find that 

 some parts of it, from whatever cause, whe- 

 ther of soil having been thrown up, or from 

 original formation, were higher than tlie 

 rest ; and these risings, he might find, not 

 only produced a pleasing variety when 

 seen from the river, but likewise made a 

 rich and varied termination in the view 



