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the ruling principle I have just described* 

 and of which I shall display the different 

 proofs and examples. 



No professor of high reputation seems 

 for some time to have appeared after Kent, 

 till at length, that the system might be 

 carried to its nc plus ultra (no very distant 

 point) arose the famous Mr. Brown ; who 

 has so fixed and determined the forms and 

 lines of clumps, belts, and serpentine ca- 

 nals, and has been so steadily imitated by 

 his followers, that had the improvers been 

 incorporated, their common seal, with a 

 clump, a belt, and a piece of made water, 

 would have fully expressed the whole of 

 their science, and have served tnem for a 

 model as well as a seal*. 



* What Ariosto says of a grove of cypresses^, has al- 

 ways struck me in looking at made places, 



— che parean d'una stampa tutte imprcsse. 



They seem " cast in one mould, made in one frame 

 so much so, that 1 have seen places on which large sums 

 had been lavished, so completely out ef harmony with the 

 landscape around them, that they gave me the idea of having 

 been made by contract in London, and then Sent down in 

 pieces, and put together oh the spot. 



