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particular heaviness and distinctness ; in- 

 deed their dislike or neglect of enrichment, 

 variety, intricacy, and above all of con- 

 nection, is apparent throughout. Water, 

 for instance, particularly requires en- 

 richment ; they make it totally naked : the 

 boundaries in the same degree require 

 variety and intricacy ; they make them 

 almost regularly circular ; and lastly, as it 

 calls for all the improver's art to give con- 

 nection to the trees in the open parts, they 

 make them completely insulated. One of 

 their first operations is to clear away the 

 humbler trees, those bonds of connection 

 ■which the painter admires, and which the 

 judicious improver always touches with a 

 cautious hand ; for however minute and 

 trifling the small connecting ties and bonds 

 of scenery may appear, they are those by 

 which the more considerable objects in all 

 their different arrangements are combined, 

 and on which their balance, their contrast, 

 and diversity, as well as union depends*. 



# It would be hardly less absurd to throw oat all the 

 connecting particles in language, as unworthy of being 



