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ent plantations; together with serpentine gravel walks, winding 
under the shade of the trees: extended plantations ought also to be 
carried round next the outer boundary of the pleasure-ground, 
when extensive; in various openings and closings, having gravel 
walks winding through them, for shady and private walking; and in 
the interior divisions of the ground serpentine winding walks, 
and elegant grass openings, ranged various ways, all bordered with 
shrubberies, and other tree and shrub plantations, flower compart- 
ments, &c. disposed in a variety of different rural forms; in easy 
bendings, concaves, and straight ranges, occasionally; with inter- 
vening breaks or opens of grass-ground; both to promote rural di- 
versity, and for communication and prospect to the different divi- 
sions; all the parts of the pleasure-ground being so arranged, as 
gradually to discover new scenes, each furnishing fresh variety, 
both in the form of the design in different parts, as well as in the 
disposition of the various trees, shrubs, and flowers, and other or- 
naments and diversities. 
In designs for a Pleasure-ground, according to modern taste, a 
tract of ground of any considerable extent, may have the prospect 
varied and diversified exceedingly, in a beautiful representation of 
art and nature, as that in passing from one compartment to ano- 
ther, still new varieties present themselves, in the most agreeable 
manner; and even if the figure of the ground is irregular, and the 
surface has many inequalities, the whole may be improved without 
any great trouble of squaring or levelling; for by humouring the 
natural form, you may cause even the very irregularities and natu- 
ral deformities, to carry along with them an air of diversity and no- 
velty, which fail not to please and entertain most observers. 
In these rural works, however, we should not abolish entirely the 
appearance of art and uniformity; for these, when properly applied, 
give an additional beauty and peculiar grace to all our natural pro- 
ductions, and set nature in the fairest and most beautiful point of 
view- 
But some modern Pleasure-grounds, in which rural design is co- 
pied to an extreme, are often very barren of variety and entertain- 
ment, as they frequently consist only of a grass-lawn, like a great 
field; having a running plantation of trees and shrubs all round it, 
just broad enough to admit a gravel walk winding through it, in 
the serpentine way, in many short twists and turns, and bordering 
at every turn alternately, upon the outward fence and the lawn; which 
are continually obtruded upon the sight, exhibiting the same pros- 
pect over and over, without the least variation; so as that after hav- 
ing traversed the walks all around this sort of pleasure-ground, we 
find no more variety or entertainment than at our first entrance, the 
whole having presented itself at the first view. 
Therefore, in laying out pleasure-ground, the designer ought to 
take particular care, that the whole extent be not taken in at one 
view; only exhibiting at first a large open lawn, or other spacious 
open compartment, or grand walk, &c. terminated on each side with 
plantations of curious trees, shrubs and flowers, exhibiting only 
