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and that by no means a selected example. So far from these 

 figures illustrating exaggerated or extreme instances, I should 

 have no difficulty in finding many, even uglier and more un- 

 suitable, in a few hours' walk near London. That such blemishes 

 are not confined to obscure places, where the light of modern 

 progress in these matters has not yet shone, is evident, as 

 one of the most absurd sketches was taken in one of our 

 greatest parks and another in one of the most popular of London 

 public gardens. 



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Fig. 52. 

 ' . . . . the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs 

 In dizziness of distance." 



