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such effects, and no less desirous of cre- 

 ating those effects by planting. Still, how- 

 ever, it may be objected, that though such 

 trees may greatly improve the composition 

 from some particular windows, they may 

 injure it from others : this is an objection 

 that I wish to state fairly and in its full 

 extent. It is certainly very difficult to 

 accompany the best objects in the most 

 favourable manner from one point, without 

 obstructing some of them from others ; and 

 it is extremely natural, that a person who 

 is used to admire a favourite wood, a dis- 

 tant hill, or a reach of a river from every 

 window, should not without difficulty pre- 

 vail on himself, to hide any part of them 

 from any one of those windows, though for 

 the sake of giving them tenfold effect from 

 other points. I will here suppose (what 

 is very rarely, if ever, the case) each cir- 

 cumstance in the more distant view to be 

 so perfect, that there was nothing which 

 the owner would wish to conceal ; and 

 that the trees he might plant, would be 

 solely for the purpose of heightening beau- 



