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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Fifthly. After the approach enters the park, it should 
avoid skirting along its boundary, which betrays the want 
of extent or unity of property. 
Sixthly. The house, unless very large and magnificent, 
should not be seen at so great a distance as to make it 
appear much less than it really is. 
Seventhly. The first view of the house should be from 
the most pleasing point of sight. 
Eighthly. As soon as the house is visible from the 
approach, there should be no temptation to quit it (which 
will ever be the case if the road be at all circuitous), 
unless sufficient obstacles, such as water or inaccessible 
ground, appear to justify its course.* 
Although there are many situations where these rules 
must be greatly modified in practice, yet the improver will 
do well to bear them in mind, as it is infinitely more easy 
to make occasional deviations from general rules, than to 
carry out a tasteful improvement without any guiding 
principles. 
There are many fine country residences on the banks of 
the Hudson, Connecticut, and other rivers, where the pro- 
prietors are often much perplexed and puzzled by the 
situation of their houses ; the building presenting really 
two fronts, while they appear to desire only one. Such is 
the case when the estate is situated between the public 
road on one side, and the river on the other ; and we have 
often seen the Approach artificially tortured into a long 
circuitous route, in order finally to arrive at what the 
proprietor considers the true front, viz. the side nearest 
the river. When a building is so situated, much the most 
* Repton’s Inquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening, p. 109. 
