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rules of painting. But all objeds are beft as 

 nature made them. Art cannot mend them. 

 Where art interferes, pidturefque beauty va- 

 nifhes. We drefs the polifhed lawn : but we 

 only remove what may there be a deformity, 

 tho elfewhere a beauty. When we endeavour 

 to improve the objeSi — when we clip the holly, 

 and trim the box, we introduce deformity. 

 We fometimes indeed artfully remove a branch : 

 but it is to open the land/cape -, not to improve 

 the tree: or if to improve the tree^ it is only 

 when fome foreign caufe has counteradted na- 

 ture. 



The flag, during his firft year is called a 

 calf', and does not alTume the name of a Jiag 

 till his fifth ; being known in the intermediate 

 years, by certain tecnical names, which none 

 but forefters can remember. In his fixth year 

 he takes the refpedtable title of a hart. Some 

 authors have given it to his fifth ; but I 



follow the authority of Manwood*. Befides 



this title, he may ftill attain two higher degrees 

 of honour -, thofe of a hart-royal, and of a 

 hart-royal proclaimed. 



* See Manwood, page 99. 



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