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" overgrown with Willows, ot a Mountain - 

 '^ fliaded with Oaks, are not only more beau- 

 " tiful, but more beneficial, than when they^ 

 ^^ lie bare and unadorn'd. Fields of Corn 

 '' make a pkafant Profpeft 5 and if the Walks 

 " were a little taken care of that lie between 

 *^ them, if the natural Embroidery of the 

 *^ Meadows were helped and improv'd by 

 ^* fome fmall Additions of Art, and the fe- 

 '^' vera! Rows of Hedges fet off by Trees and 

 *^ Flowers that the Soil was capable of re- 

 ^ ceiving, a Man might make a pretty Land- 

 ^^ skip of his own Poffeflions. 

 cf:j« Writers, who have given us an Account' 

 ^^oi Chiva^ tell us, the Inhabitants of that 

 ^' Country laugh at the Plantations of our 

 ** Europeans^ which are laid out by the Rule 

 * and Line 5 becaufe, they fay, any one may 

 •^ |>]ace Trees in equal Rows and uniform 

 ■^" Figures. ' - They chufe rather to fhew a 

 ? Genius in Works of this Nature, and 

 ^ therefore always conceal the Art by which 

 -'they direft themfelves. They have a 

 *' Word, It feems, in their Language, by 

 ^ which they exprefs the particular Beauty 

 " of a Plantation, that thusftrikes thelmagi- 

 " nation at firft fight, without difcovering 

 "what it is that has fo agreeable an EiFed. 

 " Our BritiJJ) Gardeners, on the contrary, 

 *' inflead of humouring Nature, love todevi- 

 " ate from it as much as poflible. Our 

 *' Trees rife in Cones, Globes, and Pyra- 

 " mids. We fee the Marks of the Sciffars 



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