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Notes 071 Gardens mid Country Seats. 



worked with grey limestone, quartz, and spar. It has no cells 

 for plants : the spaces are filled up with broken fragments of 

 white marble, to look 



like snow ; and the spar 

 is intended for the 

 glacier. On the small 

 scale of our engrav- 

 ings, and without the 

 aid of colour, it is al- 

 together impossible to 

 give an adequate idea 

 of the singularity and 

 beauty of this rocky 

 boundary ; and we 

 may add that it is 

 equally impossible to 

 create anything like it 

 by mere mechanical 



means. There must be the eye of the 



