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OP THE PRESERVATION, &C. 



BOOK II. 



general principles which I have endeavoured to illustrate 

 throughout the whole of this work, will never give the least de- 

 gree of sameness to scenery ; for sometimes a residence will as- 

 sume one character, as that of Farnley Hall (Plate XXIII.) 

 sometimes another of a different kind, as does May bo (Plate 

 XXX.). This is exactly what we find in natural scenery. 



In these three plans, Plate XV. figures 2, 3, and 4. all the 

 trees are represented as thinned out ; had the case been other- 

 wise, the clumps would have appeared much more formal ; but 

 there would not have been much difference in the general ap- 

 pearance of fig. 4. It is easy to conceive where the line of 

 fence would have been applied in it — the small groups would 



opposite banks ; from thence, it passes under the cascade — then through a romantic 

 dell here unseen ; thence it ascends through a wood into a little field containing the 

 plain cottage shewn in the distance — on the hill opposite to this cottage appears the 

 ruins of Maybo Castle, which form a large and grand mass. To have put any 

 other building in competition with it, would have been too extensive for the pro- 

 prietor's views — a simple low cottage therefore is all the mansion that, with those 

 other improvements, was proposed by me. These cottages, and this kind of 

 scenery, are excellent for shewing the effects of smoke in landscape, and the 

 forms of the hills and rocks give a thousand modulations to the sound of the water- 

 falls heard from different positions. Unfortunately for the execution of my ideas, 

 the proprietor now proposes to sell the place. Those wishing to unite grandeur, 

 use, beauty, and singularity, for a moderate sum, may here find an opportunity 

 which may not again occur during centuries. The wood is chiefly young ; but in 

 a few years will redeem the price of the estate. This view gives but a very imperfect 

 idea of the beauties which it might contain, it being done from an almost oMite^ 

 rated sketch taken a considerable time ago. 



