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" the most beautiful objects in nature. We 

 " derive them originally from that most per- 

 " feet of all forms, the female figure ; and 

 " there are few well educated persons who 

 " will for a moment compare to them a mul- 

 " titude of obtuse and acute angles, great 

 " and small, following each other in fantasti- 

 " cal and unmeaning succession. 



" If masses must be planted in parks, in 

 " order to get up wood for future single trees 

 " and detached groups (which, without the 

 " interposition of the transplanting, they must 

 " be), it is plain that they will continue in 

 " existence for five and twenty or five and 

 " thirty years, before they can be cut out with 

 " proper effect. What shape, I would ask, 

 " can be adopted with such distant objects 

 " in view, more generally pleasing than that 

 " of the circle, or the oval, or some modifica- 

 " tion of it ? Observing always, in laying out 

 " such plantations, to make the masses large 

 " enough, which will preclude the stale ob- 

 jection of a want of variety, and a too fre- 

 " quent recurrence of the same figures. 6 The 

 " 6 man of taste' (as the eminent author above 

 " mentioned observes) 4 will be desirous that 

 " 4 the boundaries of his plantations should 



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