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ducted you from the terrace into a lower 

 compartment, where there was a mixture of 

 fruit-trees, shrubs, and statues, which though 

 disposed with some formality, yet formed a 

 dressed foreground to the woods ; and with 

 a little alteration would have richly and hap- 

 pily, blended with the general landscape- 



It has been justly observed, that the 

 love of seclusion and safety is not less na- 

 tural to man, than that of liberty; and our 

 ancestors have left strong proofs of the 

 truth of that observation. In many old 

 places, there are almost as many waited 

 compartments without, as apartments with- 

 in doors ; and though there is no defending 

 the beauty of brick walls, yet still that ap- 

 pearance of seclusion and safety, when it can 

 be so contrived as not to interfere with ge- 

 neral beauty , is a point well worth obtain- 

 ing ; and no man is more ready than myself 

 to allow that 1 the comfortable, is a principle 

 which should never be neglected. On that 

 account all Availed gardens and compart- 

 ments near a house; all warm, sheltered, 

 sunny walks under walls planted with fruit- 



