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spect towards a person for whom I feel so much, 

 and to whom on so many accounts it is due. 

 But he who is warmly engaged in a cause, and 

 has to fight against strongly-rooted opinions up- 

 held by powerful supporters, must, if he hopes 

 to vanquish them, take every fair advantage of 

 his opponents, and not seem too timid and fearful 

 of giving offence where none is intended. 



P. 17, As some doubts have arisen about the meaning of 

 the word clump, which so frequently occurs in 

 this essay, it may not be improper to define what 

 I mean by it. My idea of a clump, in contra- 

 distinction to a group, is, any close mass of trees 

 of the same age and growth) totally detached 

 from all others. I have generally supposed them 

 to be of a round, or at least of a regular form : 

 their size of course must vary ; and no rule can 

 well be given when sudi a detached mass ceases 

 to be a clump, and may be called a plantation. 



P." 25, 1.22. There is frequently a resemblance, and a 

 very happy one, between the picturesque irregu- 

 larities of bye-roads, and those of brooks and 

 rivers ; Jtist as there is a most unfortunate likeness 

 between the regularity of gravel-walks and roads, 

 and 'those of artificial rivers, where all the effects 

 of accident have been destroyed or guarded 

 against. An example has been given of pic- 

 turesque irregularity in a road, where, from meet- 

 ing with some obstruction, it branches off for a 

 time on each side: a similar circtfrnstance in a 



