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recommend thofe comforts which every body 

 was fond of, and with great reafon; efpe- 

 cially as I was not treating of the garden, 

 but of the grounds. My point was to {hew, 

 that there were many ftriking circumftances 

 in nature, which were either neglected, or 

 deftroyed, from a narrow exclufive attach- 

 ment to high polifli ; and alfo from extend- 

 ing that polifli too far, and with too little 

 attention to beauty in its more general and 

 enlarged fenfe. 



As, notwithstanding thefe mifconceptions, 

 my book has been more favourably received 

 than I had any reafon to expect, I will enter 

 into fome little detail (not very amufing I 

 fear) on the fubjecl: of thofe comforts ; and 

 it is a fubjecl, which cannot be more pro- 

 perly difcufled than in a letter addrefled to 

 you. 



In this climate, particularly, gravel walks 

 are indifpenfible ; and neatnefs and fymme- 

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