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near the houfe piclurefque beauty muft 

 in many cafes be facrificed to neatnefs, &c; 

 alfo to page 325, in which the charac- 

 teriftic beauty of lawns is mentioned ; alfo 

 to page 192, where the delights of fpring, 

 its flowers and bloflbms, are defcribed; all 

 which, with many other paffages, I think 

 will lhew that I am by no means bigotted 

 to the piclurefque, or infenfible to the 

 charms of beauty, though I have tried to 

 difcriminate the two characters. I muft, 

 indeed, take the liberty of referring you 

 to the whole book; for it ftrikes me, as I 

 will fairly own, that if you did read it 

 through, it muft have been in a very cur- 

 fory manner, with a view of obferving 

 what was hoftile to fuch parts of modern 

 gardening as you adhered to, and what 

 w r ere the parts of my oppofite principles 

 molt open to attack : but as to the general 

 chain of reafoning, (fuch as it is) and the 

 e 3 con- 



