xxxvi The PREFACE. 



ftant Profped:, and the expanfive Volumes of 

 Nature herfelf. 



In the mean time I preferve fome private. 

 Walks and Cabinets of Retirement, fome feleft 

 Places of Recefs for Reading and Contemplati- 

 on, where the Mind may privately exult and 

 breathe out thofe Seraphick Thoughts and 

 Strains, by virhich Man is known and diftin-^ 

 guifli'd as an Intelligent Being, and elevated 

 above the common Level of Irrational Creg-* 

 tures. 3i:^cl!o iO 



And that I might the better efFedl my De-^ 

 fign, I have promoted, as is already prafti^d 

 (tho' not well) in feveral Places, the fowing 

 of Coppices and Woods, it being much more 

 Rural and Beautiful in Country-Seats than 

 Btw fine Gardening, (too much run into by 

 fome) fince from this Procefs, in fo?jr or five 

 Years time, one may exped to find Woods or 

 Coppices eight or ten Foot high. Befides, 

 thofe Exterior Lines are kept by a Scythe fix- 

 ed into a ftrohg Handle or a long Pole, as 

 there is occafion to ufe it, without the Ex- 

 pence and tinkling Noife of Sheers in Clip- 



And I have purfu'd this Method yet far- 

 ther, by Diredions in this Book for a more 

 fpeedy Raifing Woods, than I have any-where 

 fecn 5 and in the other, the manner of cut- 

 ting Gardens and Interior Plantations out 

 of theinfide^ and laying the Exterior Parts 

 ranging and correfponding with them in fuch 

 a 'manner, as that they may appear as a part, 



and 



