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As your Letter is addrefTed to me in 

 confequence of my book, I could wifh to 

 know from what part of it you have col- 

 lected, that, in my opinion, the painter's 

 landfcape is indifpenfible to the perfection 

 of gardening? I muft own, at the fame 

 time, that I do not perfectly underftand 

 what idea you annex to that term, though 

 I conclude you mean by it in general a 

 landfcape with rough and broken parts : 

 ftill, however, there is fomething ex- 

 tremely vague in the term of the painter's 

 landfcape, as alfo in that of gardening. In 

 its enlarged fenfe and practice, gardening 

 may extend over miles of country; and 

 painters' landfcapes differ from each other 

 as much as the fcenes they reprefent : a 

 Salvator Rofa, or a Mola, for inftance, 

 differ as much from a Claude, as a garden, 

 from a piece of rough pafture. Wover- 

 mans, and many of the Dutch mafters, 



often 



