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require, and fuch facrifices as convenience 

 and propriety may demand. 



I muft here obferve, that through the 

 whole of your Letter you have very ftudi- 

 oufly and dextroufly endeavoured to con- 

 fine your reader's ideas to mere garden 

 fcenes, and what is near the houfe, though 

 you certainly would not wifh your own 

 practice to be fo limited: you have alfo 

 endeavoured to perfuade them, that I think 

 every thing mould be facrificed to piclu- 

 refque effect. I had forefeen the probabi- 

 lity of fuch mifreprefentation, but thought 

 it the lefs necefiary for me to guard againft 

 it, becaufe the obfervations I have made 

 in my Eflay relate almoft entirely to the 

 grounds, and not to what may properly be 

 called the garden * Still, however, I will 

 beg leave to refer you and your readers to 

 page 37, in which it is mentioned, that 



# Effay on the Picturefque, page 366. 



near 



