14 Of the Choice of Sdtuaticnsl 

 tuations, I mean its Height, and by Confe* 

 quences the Nobknefs ot the View, and the 

 Clearneis of the Air. 



Cofifdercitions of a lively- Nature^ 



Thofe Places being fuch as will clear and re- 

 lax the Paffages of the Head and Breaft, and 

 fjch from which we view the beautiful 

 Scenes of Nature, and like the great Philo- 

 fopher from his Eminence in Philofophy, 

 (tho' not with the {aitie kind of Satisfadion) 

 lee the bufie World ading their feveral Parts 

 of their Labour and Toil below, fills the 

 Mind with imraenfe Idea's, and makes the 

 World below us as cur own. 



An Abhreviary of Choice for a Scituation. 



But fince a very low Scituation is not al- 

 ways to be chofe, and a very high one is 

 not always in the Option of thofe Gentlemen 

 that build or plant, midling Scituations are 

 the nioft common, which as they differ al- 

 moft as much as the Faces and Ph) fiognomics 

 of Mankind : I Ihall pafs them all over, and 

 proceed to fach things, as ought above all to 

 determine our Choice in this Afiliir, which 

 is Wood, Water, and a proper Soil, after I 

 have intimated, how unreafonable it would 

 be to place a Houfe and Gardens, either upon 

 the very Sumit of a Hill, or in the very Bot- 

 tom 



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