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the wind, it w ill contrive to assail you in some quarter, and 

 rushing in with fury at the first opening it can find, do 

 incalculable mischief. The art, therefore, of controlling 

 either element, consists in judiciously breaking it into parts, 

 and thereby dividing, and consequently weakening its 

 force. 



It is on this simple principle, when fine landscape effect 

 is produced on the surface of a park, by means of large open 

 dispositions of wood, and of groups and scattered trees, crea- 

 ting a succession of rich and varied pictures, that the climate 

 is best ameliorated, and the most effectual defence against 

 the elements is procured, whether for plants or animals, or 

 for the comfort and accommodation of man. In this instance 

 we see, that beauty and utility entirely coincide : for where- 

 ever park-scenery is most successfully cultivated, there heat 

 and cold are best modified on woods. It is under such 

 circumstances, that trees uniformly develop themselves in 

 their most natural and most perfect proportions, and display 

 the fullest luxuriance of health. Thus the places, which 

 are planted in the best style, are always the most effectively 

 sheltered ; and thus good sense and good taste will be found 

 here, as in most other things, to unite in the same object, 

 and mutually to strengthen and confirm each other. 



Obvious and satisfactory as this doctrine may appear, its 

 soundness is not universally admitted, even by men of dis- 

 cernment and understanding. There is a very intelligent 

 and worthy friend of mine, who reasons in a very different 

 way from this, on the best method of defending himself from 

 cold. Wherever, says he, the wind enters, I immediately 

 stop the gap ; and the more gaps I stop, the less the wind 

 will enter : hence it follows, that in time I shall be complete- 

 ly secured against both wind and cold. — This gentleman's 

 place, though it stands high, is in many respects a noble one. 

 It has picturesque features of a striking sort ; and it is more- 

 over well covered with deep masses of full grown wood, 



