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eafily avoid all appearance of ftiffnefs or formality, by 

 planting fome of the trees out of the common line; by 

 inclining fome of them out of an upright; or by employ- 

 ing different fpecies of plants, and by placing them at 

 irregular diftances, with their ftems fometimes bare, and 

 at other times covered with honey-fuckles and fweet- 

 bryar, or furrounded with underwood. They likewife 

 cut and difpofe the branches of the trees in various man- 

 ners ; fome being fuffered to fpread, to cover and fhade 

 the walks; whilft others are fhortened, to admit the fun. 

 The ground too is compofed of rifes and falls; and the 

 banks on each fide of the walk are, in fome places, of a 

 confiderable height, forming hollow ways, which they 

 often cover at the top with bufhes and trunks of fallen 

 trees : frequently too the courfe of the walk is interrupted 

 by a large oak, or elm, or tulipifera, placed in the middle; 

 or by a fcreen of trees running quite acrofs; which, when 

 the part on one fide of the fcreen is opened and illu- 

 minated by the fun, and the part on the other fide, clofe. 

 and fhaded, produces a pleafing contrail. 



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