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nected with scenery. The sea is always 

 grand; but it is the varying circumstances of 

 navigation which imparts cheerfulness to the 

 scene. This will be obvious to every one 

 who has observed the contrast between Mud- 

 diford and Dover ; as also in many other 

 places on the sea-side. 



This necessity of life and motion to con- 

 stitute cheerfulness is manifested in several 

 places laid out by Brown, where a lawn, sur- 

 rounded by a sunk fence, and closed on two 

 sides with corresponding rows of trees like 

 blinkers, being left in a state of nature, but 

 unoccupied by cattle, throws a veil of mono- 

 tonous dulness over the scene, which no 

 ray of cheerfulness can penetrate. Such was 

 the case at Woolterton, in Norfolk, and at 

 Kirtlington Park, near Woodstock. 



If there be any truth in the above observ- 

 ations, it follows, that to plant out or remove 

 such circumstances is a great mistake ; and 

 yet how frequently do we see a formal clump 

 of larch or fir placed, either to hide a keeper's 

 lodge, or to conceal a labourer's cottage, or to 

 exclude the scattered hamlet, which we have 

 been considering so essential, in some in- 

 stances, to the cheerfulness of the scene. 



