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I will now conclude this long comment 

 on your Letter, and as it is the firft, fo I 



intercourfe and communication, I (hall al- 

 ways feel great fatisfa6lion. 



I am, Sir, 

 Your moft obedient 

 Humble fervant, 



the general face of the country: to me it appears to have 

 exadly the oppofite tendency, and for that reafon I have 

 madeufe of it; though I hope it will not be thought that, like 

 Panurge, I am always crying au rebours. I by no means, how- 

 ever, conceive that Mr. Mafon intended, by fjfoan grace, 

 to inculcate fuch a do&rine, as that all parts of an improved 

 place mould be wild, in thickets, and free from every ap- 

 pearance of art j but that the general features and outline of 

 the place mould be fo far fylvan, as not to be disjoined from 

 the furrounding objects. This fingle word fyl<van, added to 

 many other inftances throughout his poem, is to me- a plain 

 indication that Mr. Mafon had, in his idea, a much more free, 

 connected, and painter-like ftyle of improvement, than he had 

 feen practiced by any of thofe, whofe works he had juft recom- 

 mended to his reader's attention. 



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