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 The view from the principal apart- Park 



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ments should bear some proportion to distinct 



. from 



the importance of the house itselt; not 

 so much in the quantity or extent of the 

 prospect, as in the nature of the objects 

 which compose the scenery; an extensive 

 prospect heing only applicable to a castle, 

 a villa, or a belvedere. The landscape 

 from a palace should every where appear 

 appropriate to the magnificence or plea- 

 sure of its inhabitants: the whole should 

 be, or at least appear to be, a park, unli- 

 mited and unconfmed by those lines of 

 division or boundary which characterize 

 the large grass fields of a dairy farm. Yeit 

 a park has a character distinct from a 

 forest; for while we admire, and even imi- Forest 



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tate, the romantic wildness or nature, we 

 ought never to forget that a park is the 

 habitation of men, and not solely devoted 

 to beasts of the forest. I am convinced 

 that some enthusiastic admirers of uncul- 

 tivated nature are too apt to overlook 

 this distinction. Park scenery, compared 

 with forest scenery, is like an historical 

 picture compared with a landscape; na- 



