640 DIFFERENT STYLES OF FORMING BOOK II. 



pose, of being confined to no style or mode, but of introducing 

 beauties and effects suitable to the scene or situation, whatever 

 age or country they may be borrowed from, or by whatever 

 epithets they may be denominated. 



CHAPTER I. 



FART OF AN ESTATE TO BE FORMED INTO A RESIDENCE. 



Plate XXV. fig. i. represents a piece of ground which we may 

 suppose to contain from 400 to 500 acres, and of which up- 

 wards of 300 are to be formed into a residence. A brook may 

 be seen to pass through it, partly among meadows, or wastes of 

 copse and pasture, and partly along the hedge fences. Two 

 farm-houses, some cottages, and belts of planting, also appear, 

 which it is unnecessary to describe : suffice it to observe, that 

 the farm-house in the centre is on the highest ground, which 

 descends in varied and gentle slopes on every side to the mar- 

 gin of the brook, except toward the cluster of cottages upon 

 its banks, where it terminates abruptly in a wooded precipice 

 of rocks or gravel, &c. 



