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The terras mound uplifted ; the long line 



Deep delv'd of flat canal; and all that toil, 



Mifled by taftelefs famion, could atchieve 



To mar fair Nature's lineaments divine. 410 



Long was the night of error, nor difpell'd 

 By Him that rofe at learning's earlier! dawn, 

 Prophet of unborn Science. On thy realm, 

 Philofophy ! his fovereign luflre fpread* 



Yet 



" more properly tied' to contemplate this delight; yet have I feen in our own, 

 c ' a delicate and diligent curiofity, furely without parallel among foreign nations, 

 " namely in the garden of Sir Henry Fanfhaw, at his feat in Ware-Park ; where 

 M I well remember, he did fo precifely examine the tinctures and feafons of his 

 " flowers, that in their fettings, the inwardeft of which that were to come up at 

 " the fame time, fhould be always a little darker than the utmoft, and fo ferve 

 *' them for a kind of gentle fhadow." This feems to be the very fame fpecies of 

 improvement which Mr. Kent valued himfelf for inventing, in later times, and 

 of executing, not indeed with flowers, but with flowering flirubs and evergreens, 

 in his more finifhed pieces of fcenery. The method of producing which effet 

 has been defcribed with great precifion and judgment by a late ingenious writer. 

 (See Obfervatiom on modern Gardening, fe6l. I4th, 151)1, and i6th). It may 

 however be doubted whether Sir Henry Fanfhaw's garden were not too delicate 

 and diligent a curiofity, fmce its panegyrift concludes the whole with telling us, 

 that it was " like a piece not of Nature, but of Art." See Religttia: 

 page 64, edit. 4th.. 



