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the banks of which shall be beautifully fringed with luxuriant 

 vegetation, and varied with roots, stones, and harmonious tints 

 of soil. Every other part of this place must be easy, graceful, 

 and natural, not forced and laboured; in every operation keep- 

 ing it strictly in view to form the most pleasing combination of 

 beauty and picturesqueness, in which the emotions excited by 

 beauty or loveliness shall predominate. 



3. Suppose a situation, the natural character of which is ro- 

 mantic. This estate, which is more extensive than the last, 

 is occupied partly by a hollow, and partly by the surrounding 

 hills and mountains, which, with hanging rocks and craggy 

 cliffs, are greatly diversified in figure and appearance. It is in- 

 terspersed in many places with rivulets, which tumble down 

 the sides of the mountains in hollow rocky dingles to a consi- 

 derable river, whose smooth stream meanders slowly through 

 the lowest part of the grounds. From the irregularity of the 

 surface, the rocks, stones, and diversity of soil, the whole estate 

 assumes a somewhat clothed and picturesque appearance, 

 even with the little w r ood naturally there; and it is easy to con- 

 ceive, that this may be made a singularly delightful residence, 

 by following out that which nature has begun. But though 

 this residence should be covered principally with wood in pine 

 groves, rough thickets, groups, and tufts of Avild lowgrowths, 

 yet huge masses of rock will be seen rearing their heads on the 



