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highly decorated ; a symmetry not always 

 ostentatiously displayed, but still to be 

 traced through the whole design. In trans- 

 ferring something of the variety and pictu- 

 resque effect of irregular buildings -to re- 

 gular architecture, the architect proceeds 

 no further than the buildings themselves : 

 but the painter, from having observed the 

 effect of trees among the irregular parts of 

 old houses, may, in his pictures, have been 

 induced to add them in correspondent situ- 

 ations to regular pieces of architecture, 

 though he imay not have seen them so plac- 

 ed in reality. The mere architect would 

 not place them there ; but it is from the 

 joint labours -of -the two artists, that the im- 

 prover must form himself. 



Some of the taost striking and varied 

 compositions, both in painting and in na- 

 ture, are those where the more distant view 

 is seen between the sfens, and across and 

 under branches of large 'tees ; and where 

 some of those trees, are very near the 

 ~^ye. ; But wdiere trees are <so ^disposed, a 

 touse with a regular extended front could 



