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under ground. The same thing is done 



at Wohurn Abbey, and also at Kidbrook. 



It is now perhaps equally impossible and 



unadvisable to restore the ground to its 



natural shapes; but an enquiry into such 



original shape of ground facilitates the 



operations of any change in the surface. 



Levelling lu the "Observations, &c.'' many ex- 



Ground. , . r* 1 • 1 



amples are given ot changing the sur- 

 face, or, as it is technically called, "mov- 

 ing ground;" to these I may add, that 

 one of the greatest difficulties I have ex- 

 perienced in practice proceeds from that 

 fondness for levelling, so prevalent in all 

 Brown's workmen : every hillock is by 

 them loM'cred, and every hollow filled, to 

 produce a level surface : when, on the 

 contrary, with far less expence, the sur- 

 face may be increased in apparent extent 

 by raising the hills and sinking the hol- 

 lows. Such operations must of course be 

 confined to subjects of small extent, and 

 it is in these that they produce great 

 beauty and variety." 



" I may refer to examples of tliis mode of levelling 

 ground at Bulstrode, where two small dells in the flower 



