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PREFACE. 



so ably discussed, had, it is true, great 

 need of investigation; but they did not 

 want to be recommended to our attention : 

 what is really sublime, or beautiful, must 

 always attract or command it ; but the 

 picturesque is much less obvious, less ge- 

 nerally attractive, and had been totally 

 neglected and despised by professed im- 

 provers : my business therefore, was to 

 draw forth, and to dwell upon those less 

 observed beauties. From that circum- 

 stance it has been conceived, or at least 

 asserted, that I not only preferred such 

 scenes as were merely rude and pictu- 

 resque, but excluded all others. 



The second part is built upon the founda- 

 tions laid in the first; for I have examined 

 the leading features of modern gardening, 

 in its more extended sense, on the general 

 principles of painting : and I have shewn 

 in several instances, especially in all that 



