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they break that surface over which the 

 eye passes, without observing it, to the 

 first object it meets to rest upon. 



There being no circumstance in Land- Approaches 

 scape Gardening in which greater change 

 has taken place, or that has excited more 

 difference of opinion, than that relating 

 to approaches; I shall transcribe from 

 the "Sketches and Hints" some remarks 

 on that subject. 



The road by which a stranger is sup- 

 posed to pass through the park or lawn to 

 the house is called an approach ; and there 

 seems the same relation betwixt the ap- 

 proach and the house externally, that 

 there is internally betwixt the hall or 

 entrance and the several apartments to 

 which it leads. If the hall be too large or 

 too small, too mean or too much orna- 

 mented for the style of the house, there 

 is a manifest incongruity in the architec- 

 ture, by which good taste will be offended ; 

 but if the hall be so situated as not to 



