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park, or flieep-walk, would be equally 

 improper very near the houfe, or in fight 

 of the windows. Now I have obferved, 

 that upon all occafions where you re- 

 nounce the pidturefque, or wifh to make 

 your readers renounce it, you acl: like 

 troops, or vefiels, that retire under the 

 guns of a battery ; you always keep clofe 

 to the manfion ; you talk of the habitation 

 and convenience of man, of a garden fcene, &c. 

 One might therefore fuppofe that all the 

 talents of a landfcape-gardener were to be 

 difplayed within a few hundred yards of 

 the houfe, where (as I obferved towards the 

 beginning of my Eflay*) the pidturefque 

 rnufl often be facrificed to neatnefs, and 

 to things of comfort, as gravel walks with 

 regular borders, &c. 



In the third place I muft beg it to be 

 remembered, that I have taken no fmall 

 pains to fhew, that, though a diftincl cha- 



* EiTay on the Pi&urejque, page 37. 



racier, 



