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APPENDIX. No. IE 



Strictures on Mr. Revtok's published Works* on Landscape Gardening > 

 and chiefly on his Mode of operating with water and wood, the two 

 principal Materials of Landscape. 



The art of forming Country Residences may be divided into two parts ; 

 that which relates chiefly to beauty, or visible effect ; and that which re- 

 lates chiefly to utility and convenience. Laying aside all metaphysical dif- 

 ferences about abstract principles, the practical directions or operations which 

 relate chiefly to beauty, or visible effect, may be included under ground, 

 rocks, buildings, water, and wood. The first two deserve little consi- 

 deration here, because whatever may be an author's principles or opinions 

 concerning them, it is certain that no wise man will ever attempt any ex- 

 tensive operations upon either. The effect of buildings is certainly of con- 

 siderable importance j but any remarks which occur in Mr. Repton's 

 writings respecting them are too trifling to deserve attention. The temples, 

 covered seats, bridges, and such decorative edifices as occur in the plates, 

 which accompany these works, are similar to those commonly to be met 



* To the two works mentioned in the last article, I may here add, " An Inquiry into 

 the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening; and, " A Letter to Uvedale £rice, Esq." 

 published together in 180,6. 



