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APPENDIX, NO. I. 



slides ; but the whole is evidently a mere piece of quackery, as must, 

 from what has been said, appear to every one. He that alters grounds or. 

 buildings from such deceptive schemes, proceeds on a basiss too precarious 

 for any but those who care not about spending money to no purpose, or 

 who have minds incapable of discerning what is really beautiful. 



From these brief observations two things result : 



1. That slides, though used with the utmost possible accuracy and 

 fairness, are still liable to deceive ; and, in point of doing justice to the 

 present and improved state of the subjects, are much inferior to separate 

 landscapes. 



2. That the artist, if so inclined, has by this mode a much better op- 

 portunity of deceiving in the execution than by the other ; and to these I 

 might add, for the consideration of Mr. Repton and his admirers, that in 

 every slide, in his two large works on Landscape Gardening, this unfair 

 practice is adopted ; for the truth of which I need only appeal to those who 

 are in possession of his works. In all Mr. Repton's Red-books that I have 

 seen, this practice is carried still further ; but as these are private property* 

 I avoid referring to particular instances. 



