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any one of Mr. Brown's followers might 

 say, with great truth, " we have but one 

 idea among us.'' 



I have always understood, that Mr. Ha- 

 milton who ereated Painshill, not only had 

 studied pictures, but had studied them 

 for the express purpose of improving real 

 landscape, The place he created (a task 

 of quite another difficulty from correcting, 

 or from adding to natural scenery) fully 

 proves the use of such a study. Among 

 many circumstances of more striking effect, 

 I was highly pleased with a walk, which 

 leads through a bottom skirted with wood ; 

 and I was pleased with it, not merely from 

 what, had, but from what had not been 

 done ; it had no edges, no borders, no dis- 

 tinct lines of separation; nothing was done, 

 except keeping the ground properly neat, 

 and the communication free from any ob- 

 struction. The eye and the footsteps were 



equally unconfined ; and if it be a high 

 commendation to a writer or a painter, that 

 he knows when to leave off, it is not less 

 so to an improver. 



