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of good taste; which seems to justify 

 some disphiy of the beauty, if not of the 

 tlie extent, in modern approaches. 



There is as much absurdity in carry- 

 ing an approach round, to include those 

 objects which do not naturally fall within 

 its reach, as there was formerly in cutting 

 through a hill to obtain a straight line, 

 pointing to the hall door. A line of red 

 gravel across a lawn is apt to offend, 

 by cutting it into parts, and destroying 

 the unity of verdure, so pleasing to the 

 eye; but in some places the aversion of 

 shewing a road is carried to such an ex- 

 treme, that a gap has been dug in the 

 lawn by way of road, and in order to 

 hide it, the approach to a palace must be 

 made along a ditch. In other places I have 

 seen what is called a grass approach,\\\\\c\\ 

 is a broad hard road thinly covered with 

 bad verdure, or even moss, to hide it from 

 the sight; and thus in a dusky evening, 

 after wandering about the park in search 

 of a road, we suddenly find ourselves upon 

 srrass at the door of the mansion, without 

 any appearance of mortals ever having 



