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The next leading feature to the clump 

 in this circular system, and one which in 

 romantic situations, rivals it in the power 

 of creating deformity, is the belt. Its 

 sphere, however, is more contracted. 

 Clumps, placed like beacons on the sum- 

 mits of hills, alarm the picturesque tra- 

 veller many miles off, and warn him of 

 his approach to the enemy : the belt lies 

 more in ambuscade ; and the wretch who 

 falls into it, and is obliged to walk the 

 whole round in company with the im- 

 prover, will allow that a snake with its 

 tail in its mouth, is comparatively but a 

 faint emblem of eternity. It has, indeed, 

 all the sameness and formality of the ave- 

 nue, to which it has succeeded, without 

 any of its simple grandeur ; for though in 



straggling, called out to him, " Clump your javelin men." 

 What was intended merely as a piece of ridicule, might 

 have served as a very instructive lesson to the object of it ; 

 and have taught Mr. Brown, that such figures should be 

 confined to bodies of men drilled for the purposes of 

 formal parade, and not extended to the loose and airy 

 shapes of vegetation. 



