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berty, or of reftraint, when either is too* 

 apparent. From hence proceeds the ne- 

 ceflity of inclofing a park, and alfo of hid- 

 ing the boundary by which it is inclofed ; 

 and a plantation being the moft natural 

 means of hiding a park pale, nothing can 

 be more obvious than a drive or walk in 

 fuch a plantation. If this belt be made of 

 one uniform breadth, with a drive as uni- 

 formly ferpentining through the middle of 

 it, I am ready to allow that the way can 

 only be interefting to him who wifhes to 

 examine the growth of his young trees ; to 

 every one elfe it muft be tedious, and its 

 dullnefs will increafe in proportion to its 

 length. On the contrary, if the plantation 

 be judicioufly made of various breadth, if 

 its outline be adapted to the natural fhape 

 of the ground, and if the drive be conducted 

 irregularly through its courfe, fometimes 

 totally within the dark fhade, fometimes 



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