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BOOK L 



PART IX. 



OF THE 



CONVENIENC I ES PECULIAR TO A COUNTRY RESIDENCE. 



The design of these depends upon the general principles of 

 utility and convenience, which it is unnecessary here to enume- 

 rate. Their adaptation to the ground, and their situation 

 in regard to the mansion, must be regulated chiefly by 

 their particular use, in connexion with the principles of pic- 

 turesque improvement. In all of them, the useful may be 

 mingled with the agreeable ; but as both these, in each parti- 

 cular case that may occur, depend upon a thousand variations 

 of use, extent, and relative beauty, as well as the peculiar 

 fancy, wishes, or wealth of the proprietor, little more can be 



