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attention to a few points in this contro- 

 verfy. I wifh it to be remembered, that, 

 according to the diftinction I have made, 

 (and which you have paid me the com- 

 pliment of calling judicious) the piclu- 

 refque, by being difcriminated from the 

 beautiful and the fublime, has a feparate 

 character, and not a mere reference to the 

 art of painting. The pidturefque, there- 

 fore, in that fenfe, as compofed of rough 

 and abrupt objects, is in many cafes not 

 applicable to modern gardening; but the 

 principles of painting are always fo. This 

 is, in my opinion, a very material differ- 

 ence, and one which I have tried to ex- 

 plain and eftablifh throughout my book; 

 yet it feems to me, that either from defign 

 or inattention, you have not made the 

 diftinction. 



In the next place (as I obferved before) 

 the term of gardening is extremely apt to 

 miflead. What would be proper in a 



park, 



