14S EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON, 



The plantations are laid out with great 

 taste, and adorned with two fine pieces of 

 water. The views from different points of 

 the grounds towards Epping-forest, are rich 

 and extensive. Lingering to observe the 

 varied beauties of this enchanting prospect, 

 . their watchful friend and instructor observed, 

 that no spot could be better calculated to 

 impress on their mind the remark he had 

 formerly made to them, " That man, by the 

 invention of the arts, has powerfully second- 

 ed Nature in the embellishment of the 



earth." 



If, on considering the immensity of Nature, 

 he continued ; if, on casting his eyes on such 

 an extensive landscape as that now before 

 us man is filled with astonishment at the 

 small space he occupies in the scale of ex- 

 istence, he soon ceases to be humbled in his 

 own eyes, on reflecting, that human genius 

 has measured not only the circumference of 

 the globe we inhabit, but that he has eleva- 

 ed his views towards the heavens, calculated 



the 



