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such a spot could be found. In cold countries also, they 

 would take care that it should be sheltered from the north by 

 rising grounds or woods. Hence the situation is another source 

 of picturesque beauty. And if we reflect on the garden be- 

 longing to each cottage, the fuel stack, the angular interstices 

 in the ground formed by the irregularity with which they were 

 placed ; the trees and bushes in these places, as well as the 

 rocks, stones, weeds, and broken ground, and finally the roads 

 to the different cottages, and the general road through the 

 whole village, forced to wind and turn in many different direc- 

 tions, we have a picturesque village; which, to render com- 

 plete^ we have only to people with old men digging in the 

 garden, children in the interstices tending cows and asses, 

 women washing clothes near the brook, and children playing 

 up and down throughout the whole. 



Artificial villages are formed in different manners : 



1st, By partitioning off a quantity of ground on each side of 

 a public road, and giving to each individual a quantity of 

 ground more or less as may suit him, allowing him to build his 

 house and lay out his garden as he pleases, but requiring a cer- 

 tain number of forest or larger fruit-trees to be grown round, 

 or in some part or parts of his division. This I imagine to be 



