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work by general receipts', fuch as clumps, 

 belts, and Terpentine canals with uniformly 

 levelled banks, fo long as their employers are 

 kind enough to be fatisfied with them ; and 

 I will own, that mould my Effay have the 

 influence, which, as a very zealous author, 

 I muft wifh, though I do not expect it to 

 have, many an honed profeflbr of improve- 

 ment muft, for want of education, feek his 

 bread in fome other way. 



You allow that the drive through fuch 

 belts is tedious, and that the dulnefs encreafes 

 with its length : their infides are therefore 

 condemned. What then is the effect of their 

 outfides with refpe6t to the general land- 

 fcape ? which, after all, ought to have fome 

 weight with the landfcape-gardener. They 

 prefent one confpicuous, uniform, unvaried 

 fcreen ; meagre and drawn up, and differ- 

 ing in character from all that is on either 

 fide of it; in reality, a gigantic hedge, that 



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