between painting and gardening, than you 

 found to exift after mature deliberation, 

 and practical experience. As I cannot 

 guefs how far that enthufiafm may ori- 

 ginally have carried you, fo neither can I 

 guefs in what degree mature deliberation, 

 and practical experience, may have altered 

 your ideas: your profeffion, it is true (as 

 it has hitherto been exercifed) may be 

 confidered as a certain preventive againft 

 any fuch enthufiafm, and as a moft radical 

 cure for it, fhould the infection have taken 

 ^place* but I ftill muft hope that your s, 

 though lowered, has by no means been 

 extinguifhed by it. 



Though your principal aim throughout 

 the whole of your Letter has been to coun- 

 teract my endeavours, and to weaken as 

 much as poffible the connection between 

 painting and landfcape gardening, yet 

 your own mode of proceeding affords the 



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