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heim, he made a preparation for one, a sort 

 of architectural foreground to his building, 

 which, in consequence of the modem taste 

 in improvement, has been entirely destroyed : 

 as I never saw it while it existed, nor even 

 any representations of it, I do not pretend 

 to say that there may not have been very 

 good reasons against preserving every part 

 of it ; but I should greatly doubt, whether 

 a sufficient motive could have been assigned 

 for destroying the whole. 



I may perhaps have spoken more feelingly 

 on this subject, from having done myself, 

 what I so condemn in others, — destroyed an 

 old-fashioned garden. It was not indeed in 

 the high style of those I have described, but 



Had I happened to have seen the noble avenue of oaks I 

 mentioned in a former part,* standing entire, ano* neither 

 clumped nor defaced, and to have simply heard that Mr. 

 Brown had been employed, I should naturally have given 

 him credit for so judicious a forbearance. But at the time 

 I saw the trees, 1 was told by the owner himself, that he 

 had resolutely preserved, what Mr. Brown had as peremp- 

 torily condemned ; proposing (if I remember right) to plant 

 larches in their room. 



* Essay on the Picturesque, part 2, chap. 1. 



