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does of its elevatmi, I not only delivered 

 my opinions in writing, that they might 

 not be misconceived or misrepresented; 

 but I invented the peculiar kind of slides 

 to my sketches, which have been imitated 

 by the engraver in my two large works 

 on this subject. 



Such drawings, to show the proposed 

 effects, can be useful but in a very few 

 instances : yet I have often remarked, 

 with some mortification, that it is the 

 only part of my labours which the com- 

 mon observer has time or leisure to ex- 

 amine; although it is the least part of 

 that perfection in the art, to which these 

 remarks will, I hope, in some degree con- 

 tribute. 



I confess that the great object of my 

 ambition was, not to produce a book of 

 pictures, but to furnish some hints for 

 establishing the fact, that true taste in 

 Landscape Gardening, as well as in all the 

 other polite arts, is not an accidental 

 effect operating on the outward senses, 

 but an appeal to the understanding, which 

 i» able to compare, to separate, and to 



