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have been expected, entangles himself on this 

 subject in the following observations : — 



" The use of a fosse," says this writer, 

 " is merely to provide a fence without ob- 

 " structing the view. To blend the garden 

 " with the country is no part of the idea ; 

 " the cattle, the objects, the culture, without 

 " the sunk fence, are discordant to all within, 

 " and keep the division. A fosse may open 

 " the most polished lawn to a corn-field, 

 " a road, or a common, though they mark 

 " the very point of separation. It may be 

 " made on purpose to show objects which 

 " cannot or ought not to be in the garden ; 

 " as a church, or a mill, a neighbouring gen- 

 " tleman's seat, a town, or a village ; and yet 

 " no consciousness of the existence can re- 

 " concile us to this division. The most 

 " obvious disguise is to keep the hither 

 " above the further bank all the way ; so 

 " that the latter may not be seen at a com- 

 " petent distance : but this alone is not always 

 " sufficient, for a division appears, if an uni- 

 " formly continued line, however faint, be 

 " discernible ; that line, therefore, must be 

 a broken : low but extended hillocks may 

 "sometimes interrupt it; or the shape on 



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