^2 for a Country Seat. 



iign and empldy the thoughts of the moft ci> 

 rious Dcfigner. 



But however, beautiful Wood and thefe 

 cother Embellilliments of Nature are, unlefs it 

 meets with a skilful hand in the Management, 

 *dscommonly fpoird ; this I have already fpokc 

 to, and fo at prefent contenting my felf to cau- 

 tion, that if the Wood is already grown and 

 theHoufe to be built, that great Care be 

 taken in the placing^ for that there areCafcs, 

 Mfhen Wood however beautiful foever in it felf 

 -may be in a wrong Place, and therefore ought 

 :to be cut av/ay. or the Houfe fo plac'd, that it 

 -may he deprived of fomediftanc View^ fuch 

 'is/the Cafe V/hen you have blue Hills, a fine 

 rValley, or fome noble Lawn, Tower or rifing 

 vHiils, cloth'd with Wood at a large Diftance:: 

 Thefe are Beauties fo noble, that even grown 

 jWoad ought to b^ cut down to admit an a- 

 [fen View to it. And yet fo inconfiderate are 

 ;miny Deiigners in this Matter, that, in order 

 jim.tke out one of their fine Draughts, 'tis very 

 •olten fcen that the Wood or Wilder nefi is 

 '\riapt')uftin the*way ; and our diflant unlimi- 

 :.ttd Profpeft fpoii'd 5 the Sum of this is, that 

 •jallDtfigners ought , to have a particular Re- 

 igard'how VV^ood is plac'd, that it be not too 

 .near the Houfe, and that it does in no wife 

 Obftruft a diftinft Veiw. What is faid 

 of Wood already grow^n, . will direft the 

 fiianiigement of Wood to be hereafter fown 

 ^r pUntedj with this difference., that the Fault 



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