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are not strikingly inclined, they are or may be opened in some 

 places, for the purpose of being seen from distant parts of the 

 grounds. This is done at Foxley in an admirable manner, and 

 from the surrounding woods gives a brilliancy to scenery which 

 would otherwise perhaps be rather dark and gloomy; wood 

 and ground being almost the only materials visible there before 

 Mr. Price began his improvements. 



Islands are another species of occasional appearance, and are 

 well deserving of imitation, especially in lakes and ponds. 

 But even in large rivers or brooks they frequently have a good 

 effect. In large rivers they are long and narrow,- as at Bolton 

 Abbey and Corby Castle, which are noble examples. In 

 brooks they are often so large as to be altogether out of pro- 

 portion to the stream, and may contain several poles of sur- 

 face; sometimes they are very small, and only contain a bush, 

 or a few trees, or a few stones and plants; both cases may 

 be seen in almost every brook, and both deserve imitation. 

 Islands in ponds should rather be numerous and close together, 

 than large and distant, and placed rather near the shore than 

 the middle. The apparent magnitude of a piece of water 

 may be greatly heightened from the principal point of view, by 

 placing most of the largest islands next the eye, as well as by 

 the mode of planting them. With respect to planting islands, in 

 general they should lie wooded, but not wholly, and never in such 



