I have mentioned were most strikingly 

 exemplified. Whatever might be the 

 other trees of which the separate clumps 

 consisted, nothing was seen above but 

 larches; from the multitude of their sharp 

 points, the whole country appeared en 

 herisson, and had much the same degree 

 of resemblance to natural scenery, as one 

 of the old military plans with scattered 

 platoons of spearmen, has to a print after 

 Claude or Poussin. With all my admira- 

 tion of trees, I had rather be without them, 

 than have them so disposed : indeed, I 

 have often seen hills, where the outline, the 

 swellings, and the deep hollows were so 

 striking, and where the surface was so 

 varied by the mixture of smooth close- 

 bitten turf, with the rich, though short 

 cloathing of fern, heath, or furze, and by 

 the different openings and sheep tracks 



high reputation I must have meant Mr. Repton ; but these 

 two places, which were laid out before he took to the pro- 

 fession, clearly prove that it did not then require his talents 

 to gain a high reputation : I hope in future it will be less 

 easily acquired. 



