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and deformity ;* and though painters are 

 fond of what is called broken ground, yet, 

 when improperly introduced, it offends 

 the painter's, no lefs than the gardener's 

 eye. All land that is boggy, rufhy, or 

 which in any way has the appearance of 

 being wet, is equally adverfe to the piclu- 

 refque and the beautiful; and that in 

 forefts many fuch parts are found, is no 

 argument that they are piclurefque; but, 

 perhaps, befides your anxiety to preferve 

 your friends from that dangerous en- 

 thufiafm which you yourfelf were once 

 feized with, the defire of introducing that 

 ingenious expedient of the piclure at the 

 end of the avenue, may have been no 

 flight additional motive for attacking the 

 painter's landfcape. 



You have obferved (what I have often 

 heard remarked,) that there are a thoufand 



* Effay on the Pidurefque, page 214. 



fcenes 



