ESSAY VIII. 



ON GENERAL APPEARANCES. 



The variety of effects and combinations of natural scenery, em- 

 bracing the beautiful and picturesque, from the simple to the sublime, 

 possess so many charms, that admiration and rapture are but feeble 

 terms to express the gratification which the cultivated mind feels 

 and acknowledges, while contemplating these delightful combina- 

 tions of Nature's grandest productions. To minds so formed may 

 be addressed the hope, that it will not be deemed presumption to 

 assert that the art of Landscape Gardening could, by a judicious 

 application of its powers, communicate a harmonizing charm, or give 

 a unison of character rarely to be found in the promiscuous scenes 

 of Nature. Undulated ground, water, trees, rocks, and buildings, 

 are the essentials resorted to for this purpose : these can be so diver- 



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