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grandeur of each part, are in the higheft flile 

 of pid:urefque beauty. 



This grand view is difplayed to moft ad- 

 vantage from the front of the houfe : but it is 

 feen alfo very advantageoufly through other 

 openings among the trees of the fore-ground. 



As you leave the village of Brokenhurft, 

 the woods receive you in a noble riling vifta, 

 in which form the road is cut through the 

 foreft. This vifta is exceedingly grand. A 

 winding road through a wood, has undoubtedly 

 more beauty than a vifla ; and in a fmaller 

 fcene we always wifh to find it ; and even 

 reprobate the vifta, wherever it occurs. But 

 through a vaft foreft the vifta is in better 

 tafte ; tho I do not in the leaft apprehend we 

 are under obhgations, on this fcore, to the 

 furveyor of the high- ways. He took the 

 direct road ; which happened, on this occafion, 

 to be the line of beauty. On other occafions, 

 under the the fame principle, he has miffed it ; 

 but here it fuits the greatnefs of the fcene ; 

 and Ihews the depth of the foreft, and the 

 vaftnefs of it's woods, to more advantage. 

 Regular forms are certainly unpidurefque ; 



but 



