ESSAY III. 



LAYING OUT GROUNDS. 



To form the surface of the grounds which surround the proposed 

 villa, demands all the skill of the Landscape Gardener : it is by 

 the judicious employment of the power to create unequal surfaces, 

 to obscure or obliterate existing deformities, and to render con- 

 spicuous those beauties which are hidden or neglected, that forms 

 the basis upon which the elegance and importance of the art is 

 erected. It is of the utmost consequence that the entire design 

 should be seen as with a painter's eye ; that the projected outlines 

 of buildings, shrubberies, woods, &c. should be discerned at the 

 commencement, should regulate every exertion during the progress, 

 and promote the intended display of nature and art in the com- 

 pletion. 



