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ledgetl good sense and good taste have 

 been misled into the strangest absurdi- 

 ties. Thus forgetting that a road is an 

 artificial work of convenience, and not a 

 natural production : it has at one time 

 been displayed as the most ostentatious 

 feature through the centre of a park, in 

 the serpentine line described by the track 

 of sheep ; and at another, concealed be- 

 tween tM'o hedges, or in a deep chasm 

 between two banks, lest it should be dis- 

 covered: and such, alas! is the blindness 

 of system, that in a place where several 

 roads are brought together (like the 

 streets at the Seven Dials), within two 

 hundred yards of the hall door a direc- 

 tion-post is placed as necessary to point 

 out the way to the house.'' 

 Of Rri<i?es ^ '^ad is as much an artificial work as 

 a house or a bridge: indeed a bridae is 

 only a road across such a chasm as cannot 

 be passed without one. There are indeed 

 two uses of a bridge; the first to pass 



'' This example oi practical taste is taken from the 

 approach to the picturesque mansion of the Author of 

 the " Enquiry into the Principles of Taste " 



as Roads. 



