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public will never resent such careful keeping of the 

 high-road, and they may be brought by it, in time 

 to practise some such picturesque devices on their 

 own account. 



Another hint I think it necessary to drop here. 

 The lay-out of a place upon paper it is easy to make 

 very engaging and tasteful ; there is indeed no limit 

 to the graces of curve, which may be laid down by 

 an adroit draftsman upon a fair sheet of Bristol 

 board. But it is a very different matter to establish 

 the same graces upon the land itself. Unlimited 

 expenditure may indeed make any surface conform 

 itself to the curvatures and devices of a drawing. 

 But the art of arts in landscape gardening is to make 

 outlay illustrate the beauties of the land, and not to 

 cramp and deplete the land to illustrate the charms of 

 the drawing. 



Particular curves or undulations of surface, which 

 may have a most attractive look in a finished land- 

 scape, may lack very many of the esentials of grace 

 if transferred to paper, after the ordinary manner of 

 topographical drawing. If we looked at landscape 

 effects always from a balloon if the hills were all 

 fore-shortened, and the curves of walks or drives all 

 determinable at a glance, a ground map would be a 

 very fair guide by which to determine artistic effects. 

 But the truth is that in nature the hills have their 



