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them in one of these lanes ; some feeding 

 on the patches of turf, that in the wider 

 parts are intermixed with the fern and the 

 bushes ; some lying in the niches they have 

 worn in the banks among the roots of trees, 

 and to which they have made many side- 

 long paths; some reposing in these deep 

 recesses, their bovvers, 



O'er-canopied with luscious eglantine. 



Near the house, picturesque beauty 

 must in many cases be sacrificed to neat- 

 ness; but it is a sacrifice, and one which 

 should not wantonly be made. A gravel 

 walk cannot have the playful variety of a 

 bye road ; there must be a border to the 

 gravel, and that and the sweeps must in 

 great measure be regular, and consequently 

 formal: I am convinced, however, that 

 many of the circumstances which give 

 variety and spirit to a wild spot, might be 

 successfully imitated in a dressed place; 

 but it must be done by attending to the 

 principles, not by copying the particulars. 

 It is not necessary to model a gravel walk,r 



