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distance — thus producing something like landscape effect by the exter- 

 nal wooding of the intermediate surface. 



In respect to the first principle, it is plain that the wholly shutting 

 up, and rendering impervious to the eye of the traveller, the entrance to 

 a park or place of any tolerable extent, can never be consistent with 

 good taste. To admit, from this station, such open views of the inter- 

 nal scenery of the place as often delighted our ancestors, is now out of 

 the question ; and it is accordingly not less reprobated than proscribed, 

 in an age which places privacy and seclusion in the foremost rank of 

 rural enjoyments. All that I should for our present purpose recom- 

 mend is, a limited hut striking landscape, in which the lodge forms the 

 central point of attraction, bounded on all sides by grove and under- 

 wood, and not stretching beyond a hundred yards in length, and half 

 that number in breadth, towards the park side, both within and without 

 the railing, or pales of the entrance. This, for the largest places, I 

 conceive would be sufficient ; and for smaller ones in proportion, 

 according to the taste and fancy of the owner. 



As to the second principle, the throwing back the lodge to a certain 

 distance from the road, thirty yards or ninety feet seem ample for the 

 residences of most private individuals ; that is, allowing thirty feet or 

 more of the number as a sufficient space between the railing or open 

 pales and the lodge. The grassy margins along each side of the car- 

 riage-way (which should extend from the pales the whole way through 

 the bounding-line of plantation till they reach the open park) might 

 be from thirty to forty feet broad, having scattered over them, at wide 

 distances — say from twenty-four to thirty feet — -stately standard or 

 grove trees, interspersed here and there with underwood, through which 

 the eye might be partially let in, so as to catch a yiew of the park. 

 These grassy margins, on which the sheep or deer could browse down to 

 the gateway, would form a pleasing connexion with the external 

 ground, which is also to be wooded"; and being separated from it by the 

 open pales or railing, would give considerable intricacy to the picture. 



The external ground itself, on which the main effect depends, should 

 be richly clothed, like the grassy margins as above, with grove-trees 

 and underwood in the same way intermixed, relieving and massing up 

 the building, so as to form the most interesting landscape that the 

 nature of the ground and the limited view into the park will admit. 

 In order to give proper effect to the lodge, as its distance from the open 

 pales should be thirty feet or more as already mentioned, so it should 

 stand eighteen or twenty feet off the carriage-way. And to this it may 

 be added, that the entire length of the external plantation or grass-plot 

 should be at least a hundred yards, if the ground will allow it ; and that 



