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be proper in almost every case; it was 

 therefore no greater impeachment of Mr. 

 Brown's taste to anticipate his belt in a 

 naked country, than it would be to a phy- 

 sician to guess, before he saw the patient, 

 that he would prescribe James's powders 

 in a fever. 



In the volume of my works now in 

 the press," I have endeavoured to trace 

 the difference betwixt painting and gar- 

 denings as well as to make a distinction 

 betwixt a landscape and a prospect; sup- 

 posing the former to be the proper sub- 

 ject for a painter, while the latter is that 

 in which every body delights; and, in 

 spite of the fastidiousness of connoisseur- 

 ship, we must allow something to the ge- 

 neral voice of mankind. I am led to this 

 remark from observing the effect of 

 picturesque scenery on the visitors of 

 Matlock Bath (where this part of my 

 letter has been written). In the valley 

 a thousand delightful subjects present 



■" This will be found in the preceding pages re- 

 printed from my " Sketches and Hints," 



