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many places deep hollows and broken 

 ground not immediately in view, which 

 do not interfere with any sweep of lawn 

 necessary to be kept open : to fill up 

 and level these, would often be difficult 

 and expensive; to dress and adorn them, 

 costs little trouble, or money. Even in 

 the most smooth and polished scenes, they 

 may often be so masked by plantations, 

 and so united with them, as to blend with 

 the general scenery at a distance, and to 

 produce great novelty and variety when 

 approached. 



The same distinctions which have been 

 remarked in other objects, are equally ob- 

 servable in trees. The ugliest, are not those 

 in which the branches, whether from nature 

 or accident, make sudden angles, but such 

 as are shapeless from having been long 

 pressed by others, or from having been re- 

 gularly and repeatedly stripped of their 

 boughs before they were allowed to grow 

 on. Trees that are torn by winds, or 

 shattered by lightning, are deformed, and 

 at first very strikingly so ; and as the crude- 



