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nection, fo nothing is reftored with greater 

 difficulty, or by a more tedious procefs. 



Two of the principal defects in the com- 

 pofition of landfcapes, whether real or 

 painted, are the oppofite extremes of ob- 

 jects being too crouded, or too fcattered : 

 your cenfure, therefore, of {ingle trees 

 dotted over the whole furface of a park, 

 or any other ground, is perfectly juft. Such 

 fcattered trees are rendered much more 

 difgufting by heavy cradle fences, and, un- 

 lefs in very good foils, they alfo (as you 

 obferve) are generally ftarving. I can 

 fpeak very ftrongly as to the bad confe* 

 quence of this practice in every point of 

 view, from its having been in too great a 

 degree my own; and it is by no means 

 the only inftance in which I could offer 

 my own former practice (for I do not per- 

 fevere in what 1 think wrong) as a warn- 

 ing to others. 



There cannot be a doubt, that the moll 



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