vi The IntroduMicn to Rural 



3nd (o to mk the profitable Part of a 

 Country Scat with the pkafurable, that 

 one may pay the Expence uf the other. 



To accompliih which nothing (in 

 myfle*der Opinion (can conduce more 

 than this rural and extcnfive Way of 

 Gardening! am here propofing, where 

 a whole tftate will appear as one great 

 Garden, and the Utile harmonioufly 

 wove with the Du/ci . and I believe, I 

 am not fingular in my Opinion, if I 

 affirm, that an even decent Walk 

 carry 'd thro' a Corn Field or Pafture, 

 thro' little natural Thickets and Hedge 

 Rows, is as plcafing, as the moft 

 finiih'd Fartarre that fome Moderns 

 have been fo fond of. 



I Am not by this for excluding 

 every thing of that kindr> but that an 

 elaborate finiih'd little Garden fhould 

 not determine our rural Purfuits, is 

 what I fuppofe, very many will agree 

 With me in. 



This is in Truth, what fome in- 

 genuous Gentlemen are now attempt- 

 r ^*^S ^^3 unto whom I humbly hope 

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