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trait, it is sufficient for bis purpose if he dis- 

 cover the principal materials for composition, 

 from the spot where be places himself. He 

 therefore may select a view between any two 

 of the clumps ; and as a very slight alteration, 

 in his expeditious art, turns them intogroups ? 

 the whole may form a very pleasing land- 

 scape : again, as only two of the clumps would 

 appear, no one could suspect from such a picture 

 or drawing, that there were other clumps which 

 strongly marked the old line of the avenue 

 from every part where they were seen. All 

 this is perfectly fair in the painter with re- 

 ference to his own art ; but were he employed 

 to shew what would be the future effect of 

 breaking au avenue into clumps, it would in 

 the same degree be unfair; it would in fact 

 be a deception, and tend to mislead his em- 

 ployer. Yet this is precisely what Mr. Rep- 

 ton has done, for the purpose of shewing how 

 an avenue may be broken with good effect. 

 He has in one plate represented the avenue on 

 which the operation is to be performed, at its 

 length, and of course as describing the straight 

 line; and in common justice he ought to have 

 given the same view of it when broken : but 

 he well knew what a figure his clumps would 

 make when the straight line was dotted with 

 them. He therefore in the other plate has 

 very dextrously changed both the point of 

 view, and the scale ; and as he knew that even 



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