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distance, thus producing something like landscape effect, by the ex- 

 ternal wooding of the intermediate surface. 



In respect to the first principle, it is plain, that the wholly shutting 

 up, and rendering impervious to the eye of the traveler, the entrance 

 to a park or place of any tolerable extent, can never be consistent with 

 good taste. To admit, from tliis station, such open views of the inter- 

 nal scenery of the place, as often delighted our ancestors, is now out of 

 the question ; and it is accordingly not less reprobated than proscribed 

 in an age, which places privacy and seclusion in the foremost rank of 

 rural enjoyments. All that I should for our present purpose recommend 

 is a limited hut striking landscape, in which the lodge forms the central 

 point of attraction, bounded on all sides by grove and underwoodj»and 

 not stretching beyond a hundred yards in length, and half that number 

 in breadth, towards the park side, both within and without the railing 

 or pales of the entrance. This, for the largest places, I conceive 

 would be sufficient ; and for smaller ones in proportion, according to the 

 taste and fancy of the owner. 



As to the second principle, the throwing back the lodge to a certain 

 distance from the road, thirty yards or ninety feet seem ample, for the 

 residences of most private individuals ; that is, allowing thirty feet or 

 more of the number, as a sufficient space between the railing or open 

 pales, and the lodge. The grassy margins along each side of the car- 

 riage-way (which should extend from the pales the whole way through 

 the bounding-line of plantation, tUl they reach the open park,) might be 

 from thirty to forty feet broad, having scattered over them, at wide dis- 

 tances, say, from twenty-four to thirty feet, stately standard or grove 

 trees interspersed here and there with underwood, through which the 

 eye might be partially let in, so as to catch a view of the park. These 

 grassy margins, on which the sheep or deer could browse down to the 

 gateway, would form a pleasing connexion with the external ground, 

 which is also to be wooded, and being separated from it by the open 

 pales or railing, would give considerable intricacy to the picture. 



The external ground itself, on which the main effect depends, should 

 be richly clothed, like the grassy margins as above, with grove-treea 

 and underwood in the same way intermixed, relieving and massing up 

 the building, so as to form the most interesting landscape, that the 

 nature of the ground, and the limited view into the park will admit. In 

 order to give proper effect to the lodge, as its distance from the open 

 pales should be thirty feet or more, as already mentioned, so it should 

 stand eighteen or twenty feet off the carriage-way. And to this it may 

 be added, that the entire length of the external plantation or grass-plot, 



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