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happy accidents of nature ; and that the ftiff 

 manner of levelling the ground, (though 

 perhaps an object of greater difficulty,) 

 might be corrected from the fame model. 

 I wifh, however, not to be mifunderftood, 

 as if I condemned levelling, digging, mow- 

 ing, and gravel walks: where, in a part 

 meant to be pleafure-ground, the furface 

 is rough and uneven, it muft of courfe be 

 levelled and made fmooth ; where plants 

 will not otherwife grow luxuriantly, the 

 ground (for fome time at leaft) muft be 

 dug; where fheep are not admitted, it 

 muft be mowed ; and a gravel walk, be- 

 fides the great comfort and convenience, 

 has a look of neatnefs and high keeping 

 that is extremely pleafing, though upon a 

 different principle from the natural path. 

 What I mean to fhew is, that there are 

 fcenes in wild, unimproved nature, of the 

 fame kind as thofe in which modern garden^ 



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