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To do away with the impression of confinement at 

 Attingham, the park should be extended across the 

 road, and thus the stranger will be induced to believe 

 he passes through and not at the extremity of the park. 

 Secondly, some striking and interesting features should 

 be brought into notice, such as the junction of the Sev- 

 ern and the Terne, which may be actually effected within 

 the limits of the park ; and particularly the great arch 

 across the Terne, of which no adequate advantage is at 

 present taken. There are, also, some large trees and 

 many interesting points of view, which well deserve 

 attention in a plan professing to increase the number 

 of beautiful circumstances rather than the number of 

 acres in the park. 



In opposition to Mr. Price's idea, that all improve- 

 ment of scenery should be derived from the works of 



Fig. 21. Scene in the grounds at Attingham 



great painters, I shall observe that there are, at pre- 

 sent, very near the house, some fragments of an old mill 

 and brick arches [see Fig. 21] which make a charm- 

 ing study for a painter; the composition is not unlike 

 a beautiful picture of Ruisdale's, at Attingham, which 

 every man of taste must admire : of this scene, as it 

 now exists, I have endeavoured to give a faint idea. 



