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But to the deformer (a name too often 

 synonymous to the improver) it is not ne- 

 cessary that his trees should have attained 

 their full growth ; as soon as he has planted 

 them in his round fences, his principal 

 work is done ; the eye which used to follow 

 with delight the bold sweep of outline, 

 and all the playful undulation of ground, 

 finds itself suddenly checked and its pro- 

 gress stopt, even by these embryo clumps. 

 They have the same effect on the great 

 features of nature, as an excrescence on 

 those of the human face ; in which, though 

 the proportion of one feature to another 

 greatly varies in different persons, yet these 

 differences, like others of a similar kind in 

 inanimate nature, give variety of character 

 without disturbing the general accord of 

 the parts : but let there be a wart or a 

 pimple on any prominent feature — no dig- 

 nity or beauty of countenance can detach 

 the attention from it; that little, round, 



to have extended itself to her plantations, says, " Je fais 

 jetter a bas de grands arbres, parce qu'ils font ombrage, ou 

 qu'ils incommodent mes jeunes enfants." 



