20 z Of Woods and Groves ^ &c. 



Proceed we now to the defigning and laying 

 out of open, large, (pacious VVoods in Parks ^ 

 and afterward to the other more retired and 

 mere natural ones, deiign'd for Walking and 

 folitary Amufements, after we have remarked 

 fomc few Things as to the right placing or 

 mifplacujg of Wood ^ for this is too common 

 an Error. I have touched fomething of this 

 elfewhere, but it likewife falls in properly e^ 

 nough here. 



Of Wood imfplac'd. 



Wood is mifplac'd, when it is too near the 

 Eye in any Place, when it crowds fo clofe up 

 to it, as to admit of no open Lawn or Brea- 

 thing, if it may be fo term' d ^ for, befides 

 that it flops the View too (hort, it likewife 

 thickens the Air, and makes the Situation un- 

 healthy. It is likewife mifplac'd when it hin- 

 ders the pleafant Profpeft of any noble View 5 

 fuch is the Sea, or diftanc blue Hills, or 

 when near ones, and cloathed with Wood 

 or fine Turf. Be a Wood, therefore, it- 

 felf never fo beautiful, it would almoft 

 tempt the Owner to cut it down, except 

 he has any other Profpeds that exceed it. 

 And if he (hould build in the Middle of any 

 thick Wood, or does intend to fow or plant, 

 he ought, at leaft, to open an Avenue of 100 

 pr 150 Foot wide that Way, while his natu- 

 ral Meanders Ihould be in Wood, as near as 

 poffible his Houfe, And in fuch Places where 



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