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remarkable form. The idea of appropriating a country by 

 stamping all such buildings, as well as others, with something 

 which shall denote the continuation of the proprietor s estate, 

 is only calculated to gratify vanity and ostentation. The truly 

 great need nothing to make them appear so, and in the country 

 will ever be more assiduous to render themselves agreeable to 

 their neighbours, than to shew the unsociable disposition of 

 monopolizing territory. With regard to their grounds, they 

 will be ready with Marlborough, Argyle, Howard, and other 

 noble proprietors of grand residences, to say with the Marquis 

 of Ermeonville, " This (the farm) only is shut up ; the three 

 others (the wood, the forest, and the meadow) are open to every 

 body ; and I only wish that they should think themselves as 

 much at home as if they belonged to them/' 



Gates are requisite both for entrances and other purposes 

 and to them are applicable the same general principles that have 

 been submitted with regard to lodges. Both present ample 

 scope for invention, which has been productive of two evils. 

 The firsts that too many designs have been published ; and the 

 second, that proprietorshave copied and executed these without 

 any regard to natural situation, or the character of the mansion 

 and residence. No one will require proofs of this, who has seen 

 any thing of the country. With regard to economy and utility y 

 Mr. Parker s remarks on gates are well deserving attention.. 



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