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mifchief they might do.* Still, however, 

 Mr. Brown, and thofe whom you have very 

 juftly, though feverely, called " the tafte- 

 « lefs herd of his followers," have been 

 univerfally and profefiedly, fmoothers, 

 fhavers, clearers, levellers, and dealers in 

 diftinct ferpentine lines and edges; they 

 have alfo been fatisfied with the equivocal 

 name of improvers, and from them a decla- 

 ration of fuch a nature would be lefs fur- 

 prifing; but that you, a landfcape-gar- 

 dener, and the firft, I believe, that has 

 aflumed that title — that you fhould fet out 

 by giving up (or what nearly amounts to 

 it) the piclurefque, and by endeavouring 

 to weaken the affinity between painting 

 and landfcape-gardening, is what I am 

 equally grieved and furprifed at. 



Before I fay any thing farther on the 

 ' ufe of the piclurefque in landfcape-garden- 

 ing, I rauft beg leave to call the reader's 



Effay on the Pi&urefque, page 38. 



att«ntion 



