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directed diat work to be reprinted with- 

 out any alteration or addition, consi- 

 dering it an act of justice to the ori- 

 ginal subscribers and purchasers of so 

 expensive a volume^, not to make the 

 second edition more perfect than the 

 first. 



I have also been desired to publish 

 a new edition of my rtrst work, enti- 

 tled, " Sketches and Hints on Landscape 

 Gardening" of which only 250 copies 

 being published by Messrs. Boy dells 

 in 1794, the book is become so scarce, 

 that above four times the original price 

 has been paid for some copies. In 

 compliment to the present possessors 

 of that work, I have determined never 

 to publish another costly edition of it 

 with plates; but rather to extract from 

 it such matter as may not interfere 

 Avith the quarto volume, incorporating 

 it with such furdier observations on 



