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the river ; somewhat higher up, not quite two 

 hundred feet from the bank, which is steeper 

 here, there is a wax bleachery ; quite close to 

 this, are an ice-house and the lodge of a park 

 keeper ; farther away on the other side of the 

 river, still in the same vista, and apparently near, 

 is an English cottage; and behind are seen the 

 thatched roofs of the village, and, crowning all, 

 the spire of the village church. 



If all these objects, which serve entirely dif- 

 ferent purposes, and are either really very close 

 together or are made to appear so from the road 

 by optical illusion, were built, each one in a dif- 

 ferent style, they would be a perfect salamagundi, 

 offensive to good taste. In order to obviate this, 

 it was only necessary to have all the buildings, 

 with slight variations, preserve the rustic char- 

 acter of the village, which is the dominating 

 feature of this plot, and to cover the English 

 cottage, the fisherman's hut, the bleachery, and 

 the ice-house, like the village, with straw or 

 some other rustic covering. Thus, the plot ap- 

 pears as one integral part of the park, as a pleas- 

 ant little village spreading out on both sides of 

 the river, inhabited by well-to-do villagers. I 

 have thus produced unity out of multiplicity ; 

 twenty buildings, each with a character of its 

 own, scattered over the landscape, look like 

 twenty separate objects, while a city of ten thou- 

 sand connected houses forms a simple unit in its 

 general effect. 



Should the view embrace a stretch of land- 



