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park, except in small villas where a dry 

 path round a person's own field, is always 

 more interesting to him than any other 

 walk. 



N°7. 

 " Small plantations of trees,surrounded 

 by a fence, are the best expedients to form 

 groupes, because trees planted singly sel- 

 dom grow well; neglect of thinning and 

 of removing the fence, has produced that 

 ugly deformity called a Clump. 



N°8. 

 " Water on an eminence, or on the 

 side of a hill, is among the most common 

 errors of Mr. Brown's followers: in nu- 

 merous instances I have been allowed to 

 remove such pieces of water from the 

 hills to the valleys; but in many my ad- 

 vice has not prevailed. 



" Deception may be allowable in imi- 

 tating the works of nature; thus arti- 

 ficial rivers, lakes, and rock scenery, can 

 only be great by deception, and the mind 

 acquiesces in the fraud, even after it is 



