The PREFACE. xv 



above the reft of their fellow-Creatures, 

 and is of continual Ufa and Amufement to 

 the ferious Beholders : Tis there, befides 

 the Lineaments and Portraitures of Rational 

 Beings, we read the true Lineaments of 

 Heroifm and Virtue, and other Attributes 

 which deify 'd thofe never-dying Hero's. 



And that they might the more efFeftually 

 ftrike the Imagination, 1 have endeavour'd 

 to promote their proper Magnitude, Dimen- 

 fions, and Diftribution in the feveral Quar- 

 ters, Centres, Lawns, and RecelTes of our 

 T^ejjgns : To all which is added a fhort Ad* 

 dition on Gr/^y}, Gravel, 6cc. 



This being a fhort Abftraft of the Con- 

 tents of this Volume 5 I fhall, for the Satif- 

 faftion of my Readers, give fome Account of 

 the next I intend to publilh, ( if Providence 

 permits, and this find Acceptance in the 

 World ) which I couch under the general 



Title of ICHNOGKAPHIA RuSTICA 5 by 



which is meant, the general Defigning and 

 and Diftributing of Coun try-Seats into Gar- 

 dens, Woods, Parks, Paddocks, &c. which 

 I therefore call Forejl, or, in a more eafie 

 Stile, Rural Gardening, 



I (hall not mention the particular Method 

 in which I intend to handle that Subjed, 

 but proceed to fay fomething of Befign m 

 General, ^and the Reafons that have induced 

 me to that way of thinking, which is, in 

 fliort, from that Magnificence that is eafily. 

 dilcoverable from the fr^/zcZ? Defigns, which 



certainly 



