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enliven the scene, I recommended only a 

 sufficient quantity of land round the house 

 to be inclosed, to shelter and skreen the 

 barns, stables, kitchen garden, offices, and 

 other useful but unpleasing objects; and 

 within this inclosure, though not con- 

 taining more than ten or twelve acres, I 

 proposed to conduct walks through shrub- 

 beries, plantations, and small sequestered 

 lawns, sometimes winding into rich inter- 

 nal scenery, and sometimes breaking out 

 upon the most pleasing points for com- 

 manding distant prospects : at such places 

 the pale is sunk and concealed, while in 

 others it is so hid by plantation, that the 

 twelve acres thus inclosed appear consi- 

 derably larger than the sixty acres ori- 

 ginally intended to be surrounded by a 

 park pale. 



example of MUtoH Park. Where the ground na- 



in'T'fSt turally presents very little inequality of 



°"""^^* surface, a great appearance of extent is 



rather disgusting than pleasing, and little 



advantage is gained by attempts to let in 



distant objects; yet there is such infi- 



mmn^it 



