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done well here, may with equal industry be done a great 

 deal better in most other situations.'" 



There was in this park originally no water, and 

 scarcely a tree or a bush on the banks and promontories 

 of the present lake and river, for the water partakes 

 of both those characters. During the summer of 1820 

 the water was executed, and in that and the following 

 year the grounds immediately adjoining were abundantly 

 covered with wood, by means of the transplanting 

 machine. Groups and single trees, grove and under- 

 wood, were introduced, in every style of disposition which 

 the subject seemed to admit. Where the turf recedes 

 from or approaches the water, the ground is somewhat 

 bold and irregular, although without striking features of 

 any sort : yet the profusion of wood scattered over a 

 surface of moderate limits, in every form and variety, 

 gave it an intricacy and an expression which it never 

 possessed before. 



By the autumn of the third year only after the execu- 

 tion, namely 1823, when the Committee of the Society 

 honoured the place with their inspection, the different 

 parts seemed to harmonise with one another, and the 

 intended effects were nearly produced. What it was 

 wished to bring forward appeared already prominent. 

 What was to be concealed, or thrown into the back- 

 ground, began to assume that station. The foreground 

 trees, (the best that could be procured,) placed on the 

 eastern bank above the water, broke it into parts with 

 their spreading branches, and formed combinations which 

 were extremely pleasing. The copse or underwood 

 which covers an island in the lake, and two promon- 

 tories, as also an adjoining bank that terminates the 



* See the Report of the Committee of the Highland Society. 



