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must have ol)served in tliC scenery of 

 Milton. 



Exanpie of The Httscls is situated on a plain cle- 

 an eevated ^ 



plan vated considerably above tlie neighbour- 



ing vale, and is therefore not like the 

 foregoing example, which was in a low 

 flat country. There are fe\r places M'hose 

 situation and character have undergone 

 a greater change. From the former mode 

 of approaching the house, especially from 

 the Cambridge side, a stranger could 

 hardly suppose there was any uneven 

 ground in the park. Even to the south, 

 where the ground naturally falls towards 

 a deep valley, the mistaken interference 

 of art, in former days, had bolstered it 

 up by flat bowling greens, and formal ter- 

 races; while the declivity was so thickly 

 ' planted, as entirely to choke up the lowest 



ground, and shut out all idea of inequa- 

 lity. The fust object of improvement is 

 to point out those beautiful shapes of 

 surface which so copiously prevail in 

 several parts of this park; the second is 

 to change its character, of gloom arid 



