fufficient to add to what I had before faid 

 in my Eflay, with refpecl: to thofe folitary 

 lumps of various iizes;* whofe principle 

 indeed is the very oppofite to that of con- 

 nection, and by which at this moment the 

 greateft part of the parks and grounds of 

 improved places throughout the kingdom, 

 are disjoined from the furrounding land- 

 fcape. It requires no acquaintance with 

 the principles of painting, to make any 

 uniformly thick plantation, from a clump, 

 to a large wood ; but to vary and to con- 

 nect thofe plantations with others, and 

 with the more detached trees and groups 

 — to compofe and arrange the different 

 parts of the different landfcapes of a whole 

 place, without injuring the unity of that 

 whole, certainly does demand an ac- 

 quaintance, and no flight one, with thofe 

 principles; the firffc is the province of the 



* Effay on the Pichirefque, page 291. 



mere 



