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" fifties, and brute animals; and I have heard of colo- 

 " nades, and whole palaces, formed by plants, cut as 

 " precifely as if they had been built of ftone. But this is 

 C£ purchafing variety at the expence of reafon : fuch ex- 

 " travagancies ought never to be tolerated, excepting in 

 c< enchanted fcenes : and there but very feldom; for they 

 c< muft be as deftitute of beauty, as they are of propriety; 

 " and if the planter be a traveller, and a man of ob- 

 " fervation, he can want no fuch helps to variety, as he 

 cc will recollect a thoufand beautiful effects along the 

 " common roads of the countries through which he has 

 " paffed, that may be introduced with much better 

 " fuccefs." 



Their roads, walks and avenues, are either directed in 

 a fingle ftraight line, twitted in a crooked one, or carried 

 zig-zag, by feveral ltraight lines, altering their courfe at 

 certain points. They obferve that there are few objects 

 more ftrikingly great than a fpacious road, planted on each 

 fide with lofty trees, and ftretching in a direct line, be- 

 yond the reach of the eye ; and that there are few things 



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