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longing to his profession, I have nothing 

 more to do with him ; the objects of our 

 pursuit and investigation being entirely 

 different. All that I beg of him is, that 

 if he takes any professional title, it may be 

 one really descriptive of his profession, 

 such as that of walk-maker, shrub planter, 

 turf cleaner, or rural perfumer ; for if land- 

 scapes are not what he means to produce, 

 that of landscape gardener is one not only 

 of no mean, but of no true pretension. 



As for the beauties of congruity, intri- 

 cacy, lightness, motion, repose, &c. they 

 belong exclusively to the understanding 

 and imagination ; and though I have slight- 

 ly noticed them in the text, a full and ac- 

 curate investigation of them w T ould not 

 only exceed the limits of a note, but of my 

 whole work. The first great obstruction 

 to it is the ambiguit}^ of language, and the 

 difficulty of finding distinct terms to dis- 

 criminate distinct ideas. The next is the 

 habit which men are in, of flying for al- 

 lusions to the inclination of the sexes 

 towards each other; which, being the 



