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troduced her into that more especially devoted to nature, and 

 in which the character of her exertions always made her 

 presence offensively conspicuous. For water-works and ar- 

 chitectural ornaments, the professed productions of art, Kent 

 produced Aa-/ias / [in the very name of which there is af- 

 fectation] sheets of artificial water, formal clumps and belts 

 of trees, and bare expanded flats on slopes of shaven grass, 

 which, indicating the recent use of the levelling spade and 

 roller, have no more resemblance to that nature we desire to 

 see imitated, than the rouge of an antiquated coquette, bear- 

 ing all the marks of a sedulous toilette, bears to the artless 

 blush of a cottage girl. His style is not simplicity, but 

 affectation laboring to seem simple. 



The remainder of the author's remarks have reference to 

 Sir Henry Stewart's mode of transplanting full-grown trees, 

 and do not strictly come under the head of the Literature of 

 Gardening. 



THE SCENERY OF THE SOUTH. 



BY ANDREW GRAY, SAVANNAH, GA. 



With your permission, I will sketch a little of our southern 

 scenery for the amusement of those of your readers, who are 

 curious enough to wonder if there are any attractive spots- 

 amongst the swamps and islands along the southern sea-coast. 

 That they may not be over-disappointed, I will state before 

 commencing the sketch, that it is not a scene of wild and 

 romantic grandeur which fills the mind with glowing and 

 vivid animation, and a desire to roam from shaded glen 

 to rugged crag ; but, of that easy and beautiful kind which 

 makes one feel irresistibly inclined to repose in calm contem- 

 plation. 



Let us take our stand, or rather be seated, to be in harmony 

 with our scene, in front of Rev. W. Woodward's house, on 

 the north point of Dawfuskie Island, about twenty miles E. N. 

 E. of Savannah, and on the Catabogie Sound. This sound, 

 then, with its surroundings, composes our scene. We will 



