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CHAPTER II. 



IT is in the arrangement and manage- 

 ment of trees, that the great art of im- 

 provement consists : earth is too cumbrous 

 and lumpish for man to contend much 

 with* and when worked upon* its effects are 

 flat and dead like its nature. But trees* 

 detaching themselves at once from the sur* 

 face, and rising boldly into the air, have 

 a more lively and immediate effect on the 

 eye : they alone, form a canopy over us # 

 and a varied frame to all other objects ; 

 which they admit, exclude, and group with, 

 almost at the will of the improver. ,In 



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