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magnitude is apparently lessened by an enormous large 

 and flourishing ash, which rises like a single tree out 

 of a bank of brushwood. When I was first consulted 

 respecting Wentworth House, the lawn behind it ap- 

 peared circumscribed, and the large trees which sur- 

 rounded that lawn appeared depressed by four tall 

 obelisks : these have since been removed, the stately 

 trees have assumed their true magnitude, and the effect 

 of confinement is done away. 



I have illustrated these observations by the example 

 of an obelisk [Fig. 4], because its height being inde- 



Fig. 4. Diagram to shew the use of the human figure as a scale ;cr measuring 

 objects. 



terminate, it may mislead the eye as a scale; since, 

 according to its size and situation, the very same design 

 may serve for a lamp-post, a milestone in the market- 

 place of a city, an ornament to a public square, or it 

 may be raised on the summit of a hill, a monument 

 to a nation's glory. 



