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they furnish a walk of more perfect and 

 continued shade than any other disposition 

 of trees, and what is of no small conse- 

 quence, they do not interfere with the 

 rest of the place. There is in this last re- 

 spect an essential difference between the 

 avenue and the belt. When from the ave- 

 nue you turn either to the right or to the 

 left, the whole country, with all its intri- 

 cacies and varieties, is open before you : 

 but from the belt there is no escaping; it 

 hems you in on all sides ; and if you please 

 yourself with having discovered some wild 

 sequestered part (if such there ever be 

 where a belt-maker has been admitted) or 

 some new pathway, and are in the pleasing 

 uncertainty whereabouts you are, and whi- 

 ther it will lead yon, the belt soon appears, 

 and the charm of expectation is over. If 

 you turn to either side, it keeps winding 

 round you; if you break through it, it 



a noble monument of the triumph of the natural feelings 

 of the owner, over the narrow and systematic ideas of a 

 professed improver. 



