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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



turesque, and the Rural. The first is charac- 

 terised by largeness and unity of parts : its 

 contrasts are few and bold. Such is the 

 scenery, generally, of a mountainous country, 

 and more especially of the sea, when viewed 

 from a commanding station. Lake scenery 

 usually comes under this character. The 

 view from the ridge of the Cotswold Hills 

 over the vale of Severn well deserves this 

 title ; as does also, though of a different com- 

 position, the view from the house at Brock- 

 enhurst, in the New Forest, where the eye 

 sweeps over a mass of majestic wood, ap- 

 parently interminable, until it melts into the 

 horizon. 



Romantic scenery is wrought upon a smaller 

 scale than the former, with more parts, and 

 a greater variety and quickness of transition 

 from part to part. It is marked by precipitous 

 steeps ; angular rocky projections forcing their 

 way between the rugged stems that are rooted 

 in their crevices, or rising out of the wild 

 undergrowth at their base. Intricacy seems 

 the leading feature of the Romantic. The 

 Grand bursts at once upon the eye, and holds 

 it in astonishment : the Romantic leads vou 

 onward in alternate expectation and discovery, 



