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ture must alike prevail in both, but that 

 which relates to man should have a higher 

 place in the scale of arts. 



Woods enriched by buildings, and 

 water enlivened by a number of pleasure 

 boats, alike contribute to mark a visi- 

 ble difference betwixt the magnificent 

 scenery of a park, and that of a seques- 

 tered forest; the trees, the water, the 

 lawns, and the deer, are alike common 

 to both. 

 Gravel Thcrc is auothcr distinction betwixt 



Roads. 



park and forest scenery, on which I shall 

 beg leave to state my opinion, as it has 

 been a topic of some doubt and difficulty 

 amongst the Amateurs of Landscape Gar- 

 dening, viz. Hinv far gravel roads are 

 admissible across the lawns of a park: yet 

 surely very little doubt will remain on 

 this subject, when we consider a park as 

 a place of residence; and reflect on the 

 great inconvenience to which grass roads 

 are continually liable. 



I have endeavoured to discover two 

 reasons which may have given rise to the 

 common technical objection, that a gravel 



