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hiolily decorated ; a symmetry not always 

 ostentatiously displayed, but still to be 

 traced through the whole design. In trans- 

 ferring something of the variet}^ and pictu- 

 resque eifect of inegular buildings to re- 

 gular architecture, the architect proceeds 

 no further tlian the buildings themselves : 

 but the painter, tiom having obseiTed the 

 effect of trees among the iiTegular parts of 

 old houses, may, in his pictures, have been 

 induced to add them in correspondent situ- 

 ations to regular pieces of architecture, 

 though he may not have seen them so plac- 

 ed in reality. The mere architect Avould 

 not place them there ; but it is from the 

 joint labours of the two artists, that the im- 

 prover mu*>t form himself. 



Some of the most strikins; and varied 

 compositions, both in painting and in na- 

 ture, are those where the more distant view 

 is seen between the stems, and across and 

 under branches of large trees ; and where 

 some of those trees, are very neat the 

 eye. Ikit where trees arc so disposed, a 

 house with a reii;ular extended front could 



