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whole is diversified with clumps of different sizes, but for the 

 most part of the same shape. The park is fed with deer, sheep, 

 and cattle, and the large spaces in the drive, and all the plea- 

 sure ground, is regularly mown. Buildings are introduced at 

 different places both in the drives and park. The approach 

 walks, pleasure-ground, and a large kitchen garden, are formed, 

 as shewn in the plan. From all the drives, approach walks, and 

 pleasure ground, the objects of view are either the ornamental 

 buildings or the mansion, vistas being made in all places from 

 the one to the other; the belt excludes all the distant country, 

 from the lower parts of the ground, and the clumps exclude it 

 from the higher parts, and from the house. It remains only to 

 be observed, that nothing is done to the surrounding country, 

 except that in the room of the cottages removed, a formal street, 

 under the name of an improved village, is erected at a proper 

 distance from the mansion and the approach. Buddings ton, 

 near Edinburgh, is laid out almost exactly the same as this 

 plan. Hundreds of other places, in both England and Scot- 

 land, come very near it; and the general features, the belt, the 

 clump, the tame and still river *, abound in both countries, and 



* It is, with pleasure I observe, that though Mr. Repton strenuously defends 

 Mr. Brown, whom he styles his great self-taught predecessor, yet he disapproves 

 in most cases of the belt. I am sorry to add however, that Mr. Repton' s pieces of 

 water, whether in his published works, or where executed, are equally to be 

 condemned with Mr. Brown's. The disapprobation of the belt, too, is merely 



