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to anticipate his belt in a naked country, 

 than it would be to a phyfician to guefs, 

 before he faw the patient, that he would 

 prefcribe James's powders in a fever. 



In the volume of my works now in the 

 prefs, I have endeavoured to trace the dif- 

 ference betwixt painting and gardening, as 

 well as to make a diftinclion betwixt a 

 land/cape and a profpeci; fuppofing the 

 former to be the proper fubjecT: for a 

 painter, while the latter is that in which 

 every body delights ; and, in fpite of the 

 faftidioufnefs of connoifleurfhip, we muft 

 allow fomething to the general voice of 

 mankind. I am led to this remark from 

 obferving the effect of piclurefque fcenery 

 on the vi Titers of Matlock Bath (where 

 this part of my Letter has been written.) 

 In the valley a thoufand delightful fubjecls 

 prefent themfelves to the painter, yet the 

 vifiters of this place are feldom fatisfied till 



they 



