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offices are few, and undeserving of attention. I therefore pass them over, 

 as well as all the other parts of Mr. Repton's writings. It is true, the 

 want of utility and convenience are serious defects in a country residence ; 

 but as they are soon felt by all proprietors, they speedily effect their own 

 remedy. 



All the other opinions and directions in this author's works, as well 

 as his practice, though alike unfounded on fixed general principles, are 

 far less dangerous than his directions respecting wood and water. As 

 already observed, the management of them comprehends almost every thing 

 in the improvement of landscape, whether in regard to present expenses, 

 future effects, future profits, or national character. Hence I have been led 

 to make these remarks upon opinions and directions which ever since 

 Mr. Brown's time have retarded the progress of taste, materially in- 

 jured* the value of property, and sometimes ruined individuals f; and 

 which, sanctioned by time, and propagated by an artist of long estab- 

 lishment and unquestioned pre-eminence, may still continue to produce the 

 same bad effects, unless those effects are pointed out, and a practice 

 founded on rational principles proposed in their room. 



* See Kent's Hints on Landed Property, page 161, edit. 1799. 

 f See Cowper's Task. 



