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those who first produced, and those who 

 have continued the present system were 

 capable of applying them, even if they had 

 been convinced of their importance. 



It appears from Mr. Wal pole's very 

 ingenious and entertaining treatise on 

 modern gardening, that Kent was the first 

 who introduced that so much admired 

 change from the old to the present system; 

 the great leading feature of which change, 

 and the leading character of each style, are 

 very aptly expressed in half a line of 

 Horace: 



Mntat quadrata rotuncis. 



Formerly, every thing vas in squares 

 and parallellograms ; now exery thing is in 

 segments of circles, and ellipses : the for- 

 mality still remains; the character of that 

 formality alone is changed. The old canal, 

 for instance, has lost, indeed, its straitness 

 and its angles ; but it is bewfre regularly 

 serpentine, and the edges remain as naked 

 and as uniform as before : ivetnues, vistas. 



