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ventured to recommend it on the joint 

 principles of utility and economy; to 

 which may be added, that picturesque 

 effect, M'hich is always produced by the 

 mixture of Gothic buildings with round- 

 headed trees. 



Where the external appearance of a 

 house has been objectionable, instead of 

 clogging all the iniprovements with the 

 dread of shewing the house, I have some- 

 times found it possible, without any very 

 great expence, to convert the house itself 

 into the most pleasing object throughout 

 every part of the grounds from whence 

 it is visible.' 



I confess there is much danger in 

 adopting the Gothic, not executed under 

 the direction of architects who have had 

 great experience in that style of building; 



t When Mr. Price originally attacked the art of 

 Landscape Gardening, I was siu-prised to find in his 

 Essay so many of the ideas which I had rhentioned to 

 him in conversation, and particularly the foregoing 

 remarks concerning the prevalent lines in architecture. 

 But in acquiring knowledge, it is natural to remember 

 any new ideas gained, without always recollecting the 

 source from which they were derived. 



