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jcctions and coves, which accident produces 

 in neglected banks. The various inecjua- 

 lities in the sides and summits of such 

 banks, whether arising from mould depo- 

 sited there, from large stones or bits of rock 

 Avhence the mould has been washed away, 

 from old trunks of trees, and other rude 

 objects,* correspond, in tlieir general eftect 

 of diversifying the outline, with the vases, 

 urns, Huwer-pots, &c. The stronger divi- 

 sions of the roots of trees, from wdiich the 

 soil has crumbled away, and left them in- 



* A large old knotty trunk of a tree would generally be 

 rooted up in any part meant to be improved, even at a dis- 

 tance from the house, much more if neai- it; in my idea, 

 however, great advantage might be taken of objects of that 

 kind, even in a pleasure ground. Such a knotty trunk 

 adorned, and half concealed by honeysuckles, jasmines, and 

 roses, reverses the image of lole dressed in the lion's skin : 

 it is die chib of Hercules adorned by her with wreaths of 

 flowers. lole herself is the best example of the union of 

 the beautiful with the picturesriue ; as likewise of the true 

 cause of the sublime, and of its distinction from the last- 

 mentioned character. The spoils of tlie most terrible of 

 animals, Uie warlike accoutrements of the most renowned 

 of heroes, being divested of terror, only serve to heighten 

 the eficct of beauty. 



