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a good fore-ground to the view from the 

 bouse, will, generally speaking, have equally 

 a good effect from every other point. In- 

 finite are the ways, even in an a bsolute flat, 

 of varying by means of trees and planta^ 

 tions, the characters of the fore-ground, of 

 the middle plan, and of the two sides; as 

 likewise of connecting them with each other 

 and with the remoter distance in such a 

 manner, that nothing may look bald and va- 

 cant, and that the buildings may from most 

 points, be combined with other objects. 

 But where a professed layer-out of grounds 

 lias the planning of the whole, his first point 

 is to display the mansion, and to make a 

 long extent of grass in front. For that 

 purpose he clears the middle part, or leaves 

 it quite open, while the sides are either 

 planted with clumps, or with close planta- 

 tions, which, going 'off in regular sweeps 

 from the house,make a formal border round 

 the lawn ; so that the building may be 

 viewed from every pail of it with little 

 or no interruption. It seems as if the 

 word of command given by Satan to his 



