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once admit of a mixture of the picturefque, 

 the whole queftion will be about the degree 

 of mixture,, which muft of courfe depend 

 on the general character of the place, that 

 of the particular fpot, and its fituation. But 

 then all you have faid about beauty in con- 

 tradiftinction to picturefquenefs, as far as I 

 can judge, has no object; for who ever 

 thought (unlefs in fome very particular 

 cafes) of introducing picturefquenefs excln- 

 Jive of beauty into garden fcenes, or near the 

 manfion ? 



No one indeed can doubt, that the beauti- 

 ful ought chiefly to be attended to near the 

 houfe : yet there are fituations, where the 

 prevailing character of beauty, (that is, a 

 greater proportion of foftnefs than of ah- 

 ruptnefs,) would not fo well accord with the 

 ftyle of the place, but where that falfe beauty 

 of Mr. Brown would totally deftroy it. The 

 ftrongeft inftance I ever met with of the 



truth 



