CONTENTS. Vll 



Page. 



Lefs danger in quacking one's felf, than in trailing to a bold 



122 



empync - 



Parallel between the education of A phyfician, and of a 

 landfcape-gardener - - - - " - - 123 



The moft perverfe and ignorant improver of his own place, 

 will feldom do fuch extenlive mifchief as is produced by 

 the regular fyftem of clearing and levelling— allufion to 

 the fyftem of torture in the inquifition, compared with the 

 cruelty of favages - - - - - - -125 



No plan, or medicine, proper in almoft every cafe — neither 

 Brown's plan nor James's Powder ... - 126 



Profpeds 127 



Why profpects in general are not proper fubjects for painting 1 29 



The fame caufes equally operate on all views - - ibid. 



Profpects are to be judged of, like any other views, on the 

 principles of painting 132 



But however exquifitely painted, will not have the effect of 

 thofe in nature — they are not real, and therefore do not 

 excite the curiofity which reality excites - - - 133 



This accounts for what Mr.R. relates of the vifitors at Mat- 

 lock. Mr. P. had called the two arts fifters, but has no 

 objection to adopting Mr. R.'s idea, and calling them 

 hulband and wife - 134 



Mr. R.'s illuftration of the habit of admiring fine pictures 

 and bold fcenery, by that of chewing of tobacco - 135 



In the fame manner that Mr. R. has reprefented Mr. P. as 

 liking nothing but what is rough and picturefque, a 

 wrong-headed friend of Mr. Gilpin's might very plaufibly 

 reprefent him as loving nothing but fmoothnefs - 137 



Mr. R.'s examples of fubjects he fuppofes Mr. P. to defpife, 

 becaufe they are incapable of being painted - - 139 



They all may be painted - - - - - - 140 



Except the immediate defcent down a fteep hill - - 142 



That deficiency of the art, and the argument drawn from 

 it, confidered - - - - - - - -143 



Recapitulation of the contents, and the defign of Mr. R.'s 



Letter - - - 146 



Remarks 



