100 Of rural and exten/ive Gardening] 

 Chap. VII. 



SECTION VJIL 



Obfervations on Vlate the ^Stb. 



^^^^ E are now come to the laft of 

 ^ ^ our Scituations and Defigns,' 

 intended to be made ufe of in 

 this Book ^ a Scituation at- 

 tended with fuch infinite Va4 

 lieties of Nature, and accom- 

 panied with (bme ot Art, that any one Per* 

 fon muft rather wifli and hope, than really 

 cxped, to find thern in anyone Place. 



But, as fome of them are to be found in 

 one Seat) and fome in another, and that in 

 this Series of Difconrfe, we are obliged to 

 »bring in all that pcffibly we can, for the 

 Illuftration of our Subjed, we ihali henccj^ 

 forward fuppofe it as a Scituation aftually in 

 Being, and not an imaginary one. 



To begin at the Houfe which ftands near 

 the Brov*^ of a Hill, ycu are in fome meafure 

 environed with a beautiful Valley of about 

 200 Foot wide, w^hich, in Confideration, it 

 is no bigger, I fuppofe to be turn'd into a 

 Lake ; how this may found in the Ears of the 

 frugal, is not hard to determine, but that it 

 is in it felf the nobleft of any thing in Na- 

 ture, 



