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matters, to which they think it necefTary to call the attention^ 

 yet I rather chufe to give the objection its full force, and pro- 

 mi fe to foften the pafTage in the next edition ; taking leave, 

 however, here to affert in profe that it is highly neceflary to 

 obferve the rule in queftion j becaufe if fuch means be not 

 taken for concealment, fences of that kind create much de- 

 formity in the general fcene. 



III. The THIRD BOOK proceeds to add natural ornament to 

 that ground-plan which the fecond book had afcertained, in 

 its two capital branches, Wood and Water. 



The formation of the outline and portion of the latter 

 might indeed have been treated in the former book : But as 

 Water, though the greateft ornament of any rural fcene, is 

 certainly but an ornament, inafmuch as the fcene may exift 

 without it; and as there are many beautifully-adorned Places 

 where this additional grace cannot be produced, I thought 

 proper to confider it only as an adjunct. Somebody has faid 

 (perhaps rather quaintly, yet certainly not without good 

 meaning) that " water is the eye, and wood the eye- brow of 

 nature;" and if fo, there is furely no impropriety in treating 



the 



