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neat for a farm, is yet often denied the name of a park, be- 

 cause it is not fed by deer. I generally waive this distinction, 

 and call the wood and lawns, near every house, a park, whether 

 fed by deer, by sheep, or heavy cattle. 



•° [See An Essay on Taste. By A. Gerard, D.D. To 

 which are prefixed three Dissertations on the same subject 

 by M. de Voltaire, M. d'Alembert, and M. de Montesquieu. 

 Edinburgh, 1764. i2mo. — J. C. L.] 



" Lord Kaims's Elements of Criticism. 



" The subject has been more fully treated in my remarks 

 on Holwood, in Kent, a seat of the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt; 

 and Stoke, in Herefordshire, a seat of the Hon. Edw. Foley. 



'3 It was not my original intention to have treated of "Ap- 

 proaches " in this volume, as it is a subject that requires to be 

 elucidated by many plates ; but the publication of a didactic 

 poem. The Landscape: a Poem., by R. P. Knight, Esq., addressed 

 to Uvedale Price, Esq., where much is said on that subject 

 under the sanction and authority of two gentlemen of acknow- 

 ledged taste, obliges me to defend not only my own principles 

 and the reputation of my late predecessor, Mr. Brown, but 

 also the art itself, from attacks which are the more dangerous 

 from the manner in which they are conveyed ; and because 

 they are accompanied by some doctrines to which every per- 

 son of true taste must give his assent. Yet, while I pay this 

 tribute due to the merit of a work containing many things 

 worthy of admiration, and while I acknowledge my personal 

 obligation for being the only individual in my profession to 

 whom any degree of merit is allowed by the author of it, I 

 feel it a kind of duty to watch with a jealous eye every in- 

 novation on the principles of taste in landscape gardening, 

 since I have been honoured with the care of so many of the 

 finest places in the kingdom. 



^^ Gerardin., Viscomte d' Ermenonville., sur le Pay sage. A work 

 containing many just observations ; but often mixed with 

 whimsical conceits, and impracticable theories of gardening. 

 [The work alluded to is translated under the title of Jn 

 Essay on Landscape ; or^ on the means of Improving and Emhel- 



