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still more to be desired, frequently leads to 

 farther improvements; at the same time, although 

 it can be fixed by any one, who has a knowledge 

 of such business, yet there is a great difference 

 in the abilities of tradesmen, this must be ad- 

 mitted, even in setting a copper, or forming any 

 other fire-place out of the common way ; there- 

 fore, those persons who may wish to excel 

 in this particular branch, connected with garden- 

 ing architecture, must make it their study 

 before they will become celebrated. 



A thing may appear easy when accomplished, 

 or to see another performing it, yet none but 

 ignorant men will attempt to underrate another's 

 science ; those who do, are generally weak, and 

 finding they cannot excel, endeavour to gloss 

 over their own stupidity, by striving to dete- 

 riorate the science of others; and this is fre- 

 quently done by (what I consider, the most 

 damning of all human recommendations) faint 

 praise. 



Therefore, entertaining these ideas, I have 

 confined myself to recommending such methods, 

 which I know can be depended on, and which 



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