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be brought, in one form or other, to serve the 

 purposes of beauty. The many improvements of 

 the ingenious Mr. Brown, in various parts of 

 England, bear witness to the truth of these obser- 

 vations. The beauty, however, of park scenery is 

 undoubtedly best displayed on a varied surface, 

 where the ground swells and falls — where hanging 

 lawns, screened with wood, are connected with 

 valleys, and where one part is continually playing 

 in contrast with another. 



As the park is an appendage of the house, it 

 follows that it should participate of its neatness 

 and elegance. Nature, in all her great walks of 

 landscape, observes this accommodating rule. She 

 seldom passes abruptly from one mode of scenery 

 to another ; but generally connects different 

 species of landscape by some third species, which 

 participates of both. A mountainous country 

 rarely sinks immediately into a level one; the 

 swellings and heavings of the earth grow gradu- 

 ally less. Thus, as the house is connected with 

 the country through the medium of the park, the 

 park should partake of the neatness of the one 

 and of the wildness of the other. 



