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strongly prove, that a landscape in na- 

 ture and a landscape in a picture are very 

 different things: and that Landscape 

 Gardening is not Picture Garden- 

 ing? This I may fairly give as my an- 

 swer to page 214, M'hich I cannot but 

 suppose directed to me. " Why this art 

 '' has been called Landscape Gardening 

 " perhaps he, who gave it the title, may 

 " explain. I can see no reason, unless it 

 *' be the efficacy which it has shewn in 

 '' destroying Landscapes, in which indeed 

 " it seems to be infallible: not one^ com- 



E To avoid the imputation of vanity, I could wish 

 that the following fact were stated by any other person 



than myself. In the course of my practice 



3000 different sketches or views are now extant in 

 private MSS. from these I published 15 plates 

 in my first work, consisting of 250 copies j 



therefore of these 



3750 impressions are in circulation. 



Also 35 plates were published in my second 

 work, which in the two editions amounted to 

 26,250 impressions in circulation. 



To these may be added, that during the 

 last 18 years I have given 13 designs to an an- 

 nual work, making 234 views, trom each of 

 which i am informed 70OO impressions have 



been made, and of course 



J,638jOOO impressions are in circulation. 



