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are exotics, they are perfectly in character : 

 and, should these be mixed indiscriminately 

 without any design or arrangement, they still 

 must produce a rich and a varied effect if 

 compared to a close wood of firs only. But 

 on the other hand, where the trees have alwa^ys 

 had full room to expand, an open grove of 

 large spreading pines is peculiarly solemn, 

 and that solemnity might occasionally be va- 

 ried, and in some respects heightened, by 

 a mixture of yews and cypresses, which at the 

 same time would give an idea of extreme re- 

 tirement, and of sepulchral melancholy. In 

 other parts a very pleasing contrast in winter 

 might be formed by holly, arbutus, laurus- 

 tinus, and others that bear berries and flowers 

 at that season. Whoever has been at Mount 

 Edgcombe and remembers the mixture of the 

 arbutus, 8tc. with the spreading pines, will 

 want no further recommendation of this me- 

 thod : I must own that amidst alL the grand 

 features of that noble place, it m;ide no slight 

 impression on me. 

 P. 301, 1.8. What has been said of the naked edges of 

 Mr. Brown's canals, may be illustrated by an 

 observation of Mr. Burke in the Sublime and 

 Beautiful. " When we look along a naked 

 wall, from the evenness of the object the eye 

 runs along its whole space, and arrives quickly 

 at its termination."* This accounts for the total 



* P. 27. 



