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to vie with the manfion they depend on ; but 

 keep a refpedlful diftance. Herds of cattle 

 are beautiful, in a high degree, in their proper 

 place, among lawns and woods ; but pent up, 

 as they are obliged to be in yards, amidft filth 

 and litter, they are no objedts of beauty. 

 Neither fhould their habitations be confidered 

 as fuch. Ornaments here ferve only to call 

 the attention to a nuifance. 



From Cadland we proceeded to Hithe 

 through a variety of fuch beautiful country, 

 that we almofl: thought the houfe we had juft 

 feen, might have been better Rationed elfe- 

 where. In a variety of pleafing fituations it is 

 difficult to feled the beft. Something may 

 excel in each; and the eye, divided in it's 

 choice, is unwilling to relinquifli any thing. 

 As we cannot however poiTefs every beauty, 

 and every convenience at once, we mufl: forego 

 that idea; and endeavour to make fuch a 

 feledlion, as will include the moft ; tho per- 

 haps fome flriking beauty, which we obferve 

 in other fituations, is loft. This probably 

 is the cafe of the elegant manfion we have 



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