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ill belts or clumps, as they have been tecli- 

 nically called ; for example, if ten clumps 

 be composed often different sorts of trees 

 ill each, they become so many things ex- 

 actly similar; but if each clump consist 

 of the same sort of trees, they become 

 ten diflerent things, of which one may 

 hereafter furnish a group of oaks, another 

 of elms, another of chesnuts or of thorns, 

 &c. In like manner, in the modern belt, 

 the recurrence and monotony of the same 

 mixture of trees of all the different kinds 

 through a long drive makes it the more 

 tedious, in proportion as it is long. 

 vvoburn I must uot hcrc omit the full tribute 



Evergreen r> ^ i <» i i • i. 



Unve. of applause to that part or the drive at 

 Woburn, in which evergreens alone pre- 

 vail: it is a circumstance of grandeur, of 

 variety, of novelty; and, I may add, of 

 winter comfort, that 1 never saw adopted 

 in any other place om so magnificent a 

 scale. The contrast of passing from a 

 wood of deciduous trees to a wood of 

 evergreens, must be felt by the most 

 heedless observer; and the same sort of 

 pleasure, though in a weaker degree, 



