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ment) that you have fhewn the dulnefs of 

 any belt in a way which will have much more 

 effecT: than any thing I have written, by 

 prefenting a much more lively image of its 

 tirefome monotony. You, the defender of 

 belts, can fo little bear the ideal confinement, 

 even of your own highly improved belt, that 

 after fkirting near the edges, and looking 

 wiftfully out of it, at laft finding an open- 

 ing, you fairly efcape from it entirely, " to 

 " enjoy the unconfined view of diftant prof- 

 «•« peels:" an example that, I believe, would 

 be followed by moft perfons in the fame 

 fituation. 



It is true, that 1 have very earneftly and 

 generally recommended it to gentlemen 

 who have places, that they fhould qualify 

 themfelves for becoming their own land- 

 scape -gardeners, by one of the moft pleafi ng 

 and liberal of all ftudies ; that of the princi- 

 ples of painting, the works of painters and 

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