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16 landscape where Nature's own hand would 

 4 have planted them. The projector will 

 ;e rejoice the more in this allocation, that in 

 ;c many instances it will enable him to con- 

 ;e ceal the boundaries of his plantations ; an 

 ;< object which, in point of taste, is almost 

 6 always desirable. In short, the only per- 

 ;t sons who will suffer by the adoption of this 

 4 system, will be the admirers of mathema- 

 c tical regularity, who deem it essential that 

 6 the mattock and spade be under the pe- 

 : < remptory dominion of the scale and com- 

 :€ pass ; who demand that all enclosures shall 

 ;c be of the same shape and the same extent ; 

 ;c who delight in straight lines and in sharp 

 ;c angles, and desire that their woods and 

 :{ fields be laid out with the same exact cor- 

 ;c respondence to each other as when they 

 < were first delineated upon paper. It is to 

 ' ,( be conjectured, that when the inefficiency 

 ;e of this principle and its effects are pointed 

 ;< out, few would wish to resort to it, unless 

 ; < it were an humourist like Uncle Toby, or 

 • 6 a martinet like Lord Stair, who planted 

 :< trees after the fashion of battalions formed 

 r,( into line and column, that they might assist 

 :t them in their description of the battles of 



