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sulated and detached, may be compared to 

 the openings made by balustrades ; or if the 

 fibres be smaller and more intricate, to the 

 open work and foliage of gates or palisades 

 in wrought iron. All these, in either case, 

 accord with the general principle of orna- 

 ment, as being in various degrees and styles, 

 raised or detached from the surface : some 

 broad, and massy ; some minute, light, and 

 intricate ; but in the one case, from being 

 regular and symmetrical, they are consi- 

 dered as ornaments ; in the other, from 

 being irregular, and not designed by art, 

 they are very commonly destroyed or con- 

 cealed, as deformities. 



I have already described the effect of 

 mixing the fresh tints, and pliant forms of 

 vegetation, with vases, balustrades, &c. in 

 a former part of my Essay, as also their 

 effect when mixed with trunks and roots of 

 trees, and when hanging over the coves or 

 the projections of a picturesque bank.* I 

 will now add, that in such a bank every 



* Essay on the Picturesque, chap. 2. 



