ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 



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one-third or one-half, of a piece of property selected for a 

 country seat, and which has hitherto only been kept in til- 

 lage as ordinary farm land. The public road, a, is the boun- 

 dary on one side : dd are prettily wooded dells or ravines 

 which, together with a few groups near the proposed site of 

 the house, c, and a few scattered single trees, make up the 

 aggregate of the original woody embellishments of the lo- 

 cality. 



In the next figure, (fig. 6,) a ground plan of the place is 

 given, as it would appear, after having been judiciously laid 





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[Fig- 6. Plan of the foregoing grounds as a Counuy Seal afler ten years improvement J 



out and planted, with several years growth. At a, the ap- 

 proach road leaves the public highway, and leads to the 

 house at c; from whence paths of smaller size, b, make the 

 circuit of the ornamental portion of the residence, taking ad- 



