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OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



or suggestive aims, I condemn him as an iron method- 

 ist, who apprehends no beauty by intuition, but only 

 by force of precept. 



Perhaps I have myself rather hastily condemned 

 all close gates, as belonging to stable-courts and jail- 

 yards. There are situations, certainly, where they 

 are not only allowable, (as upon back-entrances of 

 gardens,) but where they contribute eminently to the 

 air of privacy which must mark every true home. 

 And I am reminded, in this connection, of a certain 

 garden-door-way, which I saw near Keightley, in 

 Yorkshire ; it opened upon a narrow lane in the rear 



of the suburban grounds to which it was attached, 

 and showed such homely, resolute determination to 

 work up into tasteful shape the stones abounding in 

 the neighborhood, that I made a rough draught of it 

 upon the spot. 



This picturesque use of rock material is appre- 

 ciated and practised in many parts of Great Britain. 

 Thus in the neighborhood of the slate quarries of 



