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and climate. It is also for the purpose of proving to those, 

 who may engage in similar undertakings, that, whatevei 

 has been done well here, may, with equal industry, be done 

 a great deal better in most other situations.* 



There was in this Park originally no water, and scarcely a 

 tree or a bush, on the banks and promontories of the present 

 lake and river ; for the water partakes of both those charac- 

 ters. During the summer of 1820 the water was executed ; 

 and in that and the following year, the grounds immediately 

 adjoining were abundantly covered with wood, by means of 

 the transplanting machine. Groups and single trees, grove 

 and underwood were introduced, in every style of disposition, 

 which the subject seemed to admit. Where the turf recedes 

 from, or approaches the water, the ground is somewhat bold 

 and irregular, although without striking features of any sort : 

 yet the profusion of wood, scattered over a surface of moder- 

 ate limits, in every form and variety, gave it an intricacy and 

 an expression, which it never possessed before. 



By the autumn of the third year only after the execution, 

 namely 1823, when the Committee of the Society honoured 

 the place with their inspection, the different parts seemed to 

 harmonize with one another, and the intended effects were 

 nearly produced. What it was wished to bring forward, ap- 

 peared already prominent. What was to be concealed, or 

 thrown into the background, began to assume that station. 

 The foreground trees, (the best that could be procured,) 

 placed on the eastern bank above the water, broke it into 

 parts with their spreading branches, and formed combina- 

 tions, Avhich were extremely pleasing. The copse or luider- 

 woodj which covers an island in the lake, and two promon- 

 tories, as also an adjoining bank that terminates the distance, 

 was seen coming down nearly to the water's edge. What 

 was the most important of all, both trees and underwood had 



* See the Report of the Committee of the Highland Society. 



