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their fears. You have alarmed your vale- 

 tudinarian and hypochondriacal patients 

 for their fpirits and conftitution, by telling 

 them, that the confequence of having that 

 myfterious bug-bear, the painter's land- 

 scape, in their places, " is a facrifice of 

 the health, cheerfulnefs, and comfort of 

 a country refidence/' Do you really think 

 that rocks and cafcades (when a gentle- 

 man is fo unfortunate as to have them 

 within the circuit of his walks, or even 

 near his manfion) are more aguifh than 

 grafs and ftagnant water? or is a made 

 river, with its formal fweeps and naked 

 edges, more cheerful and enlivening than 

 a rapid ftream — 



Che rompe il corfo fra minuti fafli ? 



Is a fandy or gravelly lane, with broken 

 ground and wild vegetation, lefs healthy 

 or varied than a gravel walk between 

 banks fmoothly turfed ? 



I be- 



