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to be renounced, would fpeak of tranf- 

 ferring it to goats and gipfies. But do 

 you really think it has little to do (in 

 whatever fenfe you take it) with landfcape 

 gardening? Suppofe, for inftance, that in 

 a place you were improving, there were 

 a river, in one part of which the banks 

 confifted of foft and frefh meadow and 

 pafture, either level, or gently Hoping to 

 the water; the natural turf extending to 

 the brink, unlefs where the current had 

 flightly worn it away, or where a low 

 fringe of wood, or flourifhing trees over- 

 hung it, and broke the continuation of its 

 outline. That in other parts the banks 

 were of a rude and pict urefque character ; 

 high and abrupt, with rugged old trees 

 projecting from them, and extending their 

 twilled limbs over the ftream; that the 

 ground had crumbled away from among 

 their fhaggy roots, and had left them, and 



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