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APPENDIX. No. 1. 



An Inquiry into the Merits a/ Mr. Repton's Manner of using Slides with 

 Sketches, as displayed in his published Works* and private Red-books, 

 or MSS.—{See Plate XXXII.) 



I do not question Mr. Repton's right to the merit of having first applied 

 slides, or folding slips of paper, to sketches for improving landscape scenery ; 

 though I deny what he affirms in several parts of his works, that he is 

 the inventor of them. Slides upon a similar plan have long been in use 

 for various purposes, and were employed by the late Mr. Walker, of 

 Edinburgh, in teaching astronomy upwards of thirty years ago. My 

 business, however, is to inquire into their merits, which will be easily dis- 

 covered when their intended use is explained. The only avowed purpose 

 for which these can be used is to save the expense or trouble of making 

 two landscapes where it is thought one and a half, or less, may suffice. 

 Thus, where one landscape is made to shew the present state of the 

 grounds or scenery, as Plate XXIX. ; and another to shew the effect of 

 the intended improvements, as Plate XXX, ; the slide, or slip of paper, 

 as in Plate XXXII., supersedes the use of the first ; by containing on it 

 all those parts of the ground whereon the alterations are made. Now the 

 question is, whether this is equally candid, and gives the same degree of 



* These works are : " Hints and Sketches on Landscape Gardening/' published 

 1794'; and, "Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening/' -&c. 

 published 1805-6. 



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