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making of a gravel walk acrofs or around 

 the whole opening improve the beauty of 

 fuch a fcene ? for the convenience of walk- 

 ing, and the look of neatnefs, and habita- 

 tion, are feparate confiderations. Can any 

 one doubt that there are in wild, that is, 

 unimproved nature, fcenes more foft, more 

 beautiful, than any thing which modern 

 gardening has produced? Nay, that the 

 peculiar beauties of fuch fcenes have been 

 ill imitated, and the true principles of thofe 

 beauties ill uiiderftood ? In the fame propor- 

 tion that natural groups and thickets are 

 intricate yet beautiful, clumps are abrupt, 

 without being piclurefque ; for the line of 

 digging is hard, and renders the round, the 

 oval, or whatever be the fhape, diftincT: and 

 formal. It clearly appears to me, that all 

 thefe are defects, and they may be avoided, 

 in a great degree, by endeavouring to fol- 

 low, not to improve by counteracting, the 

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