4 o GENERAL POSTSCRIPT. 



feveral books, in their order, to fhew their connection one 

 with another; and to obviate a few objections which have 

 been made to certain parts of each, by fome perfons whofe 

 opinions I highly refpect ; objections which I flatter myfelf 

 might arife from their having examined thofe parts feparately, 

 as the feparate publication of the books neceffarily led them to* 

 do -, and which, perhaps, had they feen the whole together,^ 

 they would not have found of fo much importance. 



I. The firfl book, as I have faid, contains the 

 Principles of the Art, which are (hewn to be no other than: 

 thofe which conftitute Beauty in the lifter art of Landfcape 

 Painting; Beauty which refults from a well-chofen variety of 

 curves, in contradiftinction to that of Architecture which 

 arifes from a judicious fymmetiy of right lines, and which 

 is there fhewn to have afforded the principle on which that- 

 formal difpofition of Garden Ground, which our ancestors- 

 borrowed from the French and Dutch, proceeded. A principle 

 never adopted by Nature herfelf, and therefore conilantly to 

 be avoided by thofe whofe bufinefs it is to embellifh Nature* 



