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magnitude is apparently lessened by an enormous large 

 and flourishmg ash, which rises like a single tree out 

 ot a bank oi brushwood. When 1 was first consulted 

 respecting Wentworth House, the lawn behind it ap- 

 peared circumscribed, and the large trees which sur- 

 rounded that lawn appeared depressed by four tall 

 obelisks : these have since been removed, the stately 

 trees have assumed their true magnitude, and the effect 

 oi confinement is done away. 



I have illustrated these observations by the example 

 of an obelisk [Fig. 4], because its height being inde- 



Fig. 4. Diagram to shew the use of the human figure as a scale :cr measuring 

 objects. 



terminate, it may mislead the eye as a scale ; since, 

 according to its size and situation, the verv same design 

 may serve for a lamp-post, a milestone in the market- 

 place of a cit\% an ornament to a public square, or it 

 may be raised on the summit of a hill, a monument 

 to a nation's g-lory. 



