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tention, and uses of a belt. The comfort 

 and pleasure of a country residence re- 

 quire that some ground, in proportion 

 to the size of the house, should be sepa- 

 rated from the adjoining ploughed fields; 

 this inclosure, call it park, or lawn, or 

 pleasure ground, must have the air of 

 being appropriated to the peculiar use 

 and pleasure of the proprietor. The love 

 of seclusion and safety is not less natural 

 to man than that of liberty; and I con- 

 ceive it would be almost as painful to live 

 in a house without the power of shutting 

 any door, as in one with all the doors 

 locked : the mind is equally displeased 

 with the excess of liberty, or of restraint, 

 when either is too apparent. From hence 

 proceeds the necessity of inclosing a park, 

 and also of hiding the boundary by which 

 it is inclosed; now a plantation being the 

 most natural means of hiding a park pale, 

 nothing can be more obvious than a drive 

 or walk in such a plantation. If this belt 

 be made of one uniform breadth, with a 

 drive as uniformly serpentining through 

 the middle of it, I am ready to allow that 



