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shews the difference between it and figures 2. and 3., in regard 

 to connection with the country. 



Mountwhannie, Barnbarrow, Hopton Court, and Farnley 

 Hall, are improving according to this principle. Plates XXIII. 

 and XXIV. shew the difference in general effect between the 

 two schemes, and shew also that the mode disapproved of is 

 fully practised even at the present day; Farnley Hall, the sub- 

 ject of Plate XXIV. being laid out in 1804-5. Plates XV. 

 fig. 2. XVI. fig. 2. and Plates VII. VIII. XXV. and XXVIII. 

 shew the effect of this mode of forming a residence, in regard 

 to small scenes or landscapes. Plates XXXI. and XXXII. are 

 designs for improving the general view of two residences of 

 singular characters*, and are introduced to shew that the same 



* Maybo (PI. XXXI.) is situated near Dumfries : it consists entirely of fertile hills 

 and mountains, chiefly clothed with wood, but containing a considerable quantity of 

 excellent pasture, in glades and fields on their sides, and good meadows in the 

 vallies. It abounds with rills, and has some natural waterfalls. The lake shewn 

 in this plate will be formed at the mere expense of a head, and the cascade 

 by altering the direction of one rill, and uniting it with another already there. 

 At the same time this alteration will be highly useful, by affording an opportunity 

 of irrigating near fifty acres of pasture, which are on a declivity not seen in this 

 view. The rocks here shewn are at present too much concealed by wood. The 

 distant hill has only been a few years planted, and of course the trees scarcely clothe 

 the surface. The one with pointed tops of trees is covered with a plantation of firs, 

 which, notwithstanding their formal shapes, have, from the uncommon variety of 

 the surface, an excellent effect. The effect of a low waterfall, and also of the ait 

 or little island, are conspicuous near the approach in the foreground. The ap- 

 proach winds round the lake, and passes through the gate of the cottage on its 



