is, that according to Hogarth's expression, 

 it leads the eye a kind of wanton chace ; 

 this is what he calls the beauty of intricacy, 

 and is that which distinguishes what is 

 produced by soft winding shapes, from the 

 more sudden and quickly-varying kind, 

 which arises from abrupt and rugged forms. 

 All this wanton chace, as well as the effects 

 of more wild and picturesque intricacy, is 

 immediately checked by any circular plan- 

 tation ; which never appears to retire from 

 the eye and lose itself in the distance, never 

 admits of partial concealments. AVhat- 

 ever varieties of hills and dales there may 

 be, such a plantation must stiffly cut across 

 them, so that the undulations, and what in 

 seamen's language may be called the 

 trending of the ground, cannot in that case 

 be humoured ; nor can its playful character 

 be marked by that style of planting, which 

 at once points out, and adds to its beautiful 

 intricacy. . 



This may serve to shew Low impossible 

 it is to plan any forms of plantations that 



