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and more distant woods, and to the remote 

 distance.* 



All this was sacrificed to undulation of 

 ground only; for shrubs and verdure were 

 not wanting before. That undulation might 

 have been so mixed in parts with those de* 

 corations and abruptnesses, that they would 

 have mutually added to each other's charms; 

 but I now can only lament what it is next 

 to impossible to restore ; and can only re- 

 flect, how much more difficult it is to add 

 any of the old decorations to modern im» 

 provements, than to soften the old style by 

 blending with it a proper portion of the 

 new. My object (as far as I had any de- 

 terminate object besides that of being in tlie 

 fashion) was, I imagine, to restore the 

 ground to what might be supposed to have 

 been its original state ; I probably have in 

 some degi'ee succeeded, and, after much 

 difficulty, expence, and dirt, I have made it 



* The remJlrk of a French writer may very justly be ap- 

 plied to some of these old Gardens — " L'agreable y etail 

 " seuvent tacrifie a I'utile, et en general l'agreable y gagvu-^ 



