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sified in composition, so varied in hue, form, character, and beauty, 

 as to be almost infinite in their varieties of appHcation. If it were 

 possible to exhibit those objects confusedly disposed or unharmoni- 

 ously combined, and while they were viewed, the just appropriation of 

 the objects were to take place, producing all the perfection of which 

 they were capable, it would be a magical operation ; and the art ot 

 combining scenic objects would be shown, the improved effect in 

 composition rendered evident, and the application of the Art of 

 Landscape Gardening conspicuously displayed to advantage. 



Who is insensible to the tasteful outline of the well-grouped 

 plantations ; to finely shorn grass, having shrubs and trees tastefully 

 disposed upon it ; to the walk gracefully winding through the grove 

 to some sequestered spot, assuming the appearance of neglected 

 nature, where the purling stream murmurs through the thicket with 

 its soothing notes reverberated and softened amid the trees, until 

 through the vista opening on the decorated scenery the eye is gra- 

 tified and the heart delighted ? Language can but faintly express 

 these beauties : here it must pause; it cannot communicate the full 

 and true touch of nature, her living and endless varieties of form and 

 colours — so varied are the scenes which she exhibits, and so infinite 

 their combinations and their peculiarities. 



" And oh ! the transport most allied to song, 

 In some fair villa's peaceful bound, 



