i/8 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



add to the effect of the work in hand ? If, by cut- 

 ting a few trees from the copse upon the hill-side, I 

 can bring ray neighbor's broad-armed windmill into 

 view, I am taking a very legitimate means of availing 

 myself of his expenditure ; and if the usual anchor- 

 age-ground for my neighbor's yacht is shut off only 

 by a tuft of shrubbery upon my lawn, I will cut it 

 away and enjoy his yacht (at anchorage) as much as 

 he. 



There are many country places which from their 

 position, possess an outlook so broad and grand as 

 to demand no consideration of special views, and 

 where landscape art will find range not only in the 

 ordering of lesser details, but in partial concealment 

 of the beauties that confront the eye. The situations 

 to which I allude are upon such range of highland as 

 to offer very likely from the adjoining public road a 

 similar width of view ; but the house-view must have 

 some special consecration of its own some veil of 

 intervening foliage may be, through which the ravish- 

 ing distance shall come by glimpses ; some embower- 

 ment of trees, under which, as in a rural framing, the 

 great picture of the rivers and the. mountains shall 

 take new sightliness ; some tortuous walk through im- 

 penetrable shrubberies, from the midst of whose dim- 

 ness you shall suddenly burst out upon the glory of 

 the far landscape. Such devices are needful not only 



