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the principal profpect and ground allotted to piclurefque im- 

 provement lie entirely on the other fide; fo much fo, that ths 

 two different modes of planting can never appear together 

 from any given point of view; and this is the utmoft that I. 

 can concede on this fubject. 



II. The piclurefque principle beirrg thus effoblimed in the 

 iirft book, as well by proofs of its beauty when followed, as 

 of the deformity which refults from its being deferted, the 

 fecond book proceeds to a more practical difcufiion of the 

 fubject, but confines itfelf to one point only, the difpofition of 

 the ground-plan, and, that very material bufinefs immediately 

 united with it, the proper difpofition and formation of the 

 paths and fences. The neceffity of attending conflantly to the 

 curvilinear principle is firft fhewn, not only in the formation 

 of the ground-plan, with refpect to its external boundary, but 

 in its internal fwellings and fmkings, where all abruptnefs or 

 angular appearances are as much to be avoided as in the form 

 of the outline that furrounds the whole. 



The pathways or walks are next confidered, and that pecu- 

 liar curve recommended for their imitation which is fo fre- 

 quently 



