I approve your printing.* Bury a few copies against 

 this Island is rediscovered. Some American versed in the 

 old English language will translate it and revive the true 

 taste in gardening; though he will smile at the diminutive 

 scenes on the little Thames when he is planting a forest on 

 the banks of the Oronoko. I love to skip into futurity 

 and imagine what will be done on the giant scale of a new 

 hemisphere. 

 — HoBACE Walpole to Reverend Wm. Mason, 1775. 



* An essay on gardening. 



