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BOOK II. 



PART III. 



DIFFERENT STYLES OF FORMING A COUNTRY 

 RESIDENCE CHARACTERIZED, 



AND COMPARED WITH THE MODE PROPOSED IN THIS WORK. 



I have observed in the general introduction to this volume, 

 that two distinct styles or manners of forming a country resi- 

 dence have existed : the one avowedly formal, and the other 

 affectedly graceful. I now proceed to compare these two 

 styles with that which I propose to introduce, or rather (to 

 avoid a term which may have the appearance of indicating 

 too great a love of system,) with the free manner which I pro- 



