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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Bologna, having a position not very unlike that of W est 
Point on the Hudson — supposing that the river forked 
there, one arm running on each side. You stand on this 
promontory and look down one lake twenty miles to Como ; 
and this view is similar, though finer, from the moun- 
tains being higher and more delicate, to the view down 
the North River, from Kosciusko’s monument ; and then 
on the other side, you look as it might be upon a portion 
of the river running between Crow-Nest and West 
Point dock, some twenty miles also down the lake to 
Lecco ; you then look up, as if to Newburgh, and see, 
at about this distance (nine miles) the Alps, in snow- 
clad majesty. The whole promontory does not, we be- 
lieve, exceed five acres, rising conically perhaps six 
hundred feet from the water ; but the walks, which are 
graveled or paved with very small pebbles, are three 
or four miles in extent, most admirably managed by 
means of dense plantations, tunnels, and bridges. The 
promontory from the lake seems heavily wooded ; and 
yet everything has been done by art. The deep shade 
has been produced by the most charming undergrowth 
of cypresses, laurel, casuaria, myrtle, and English yews. 
You enter through a cavern into a glen, quite spectral 
in its midnight darkness, surrounded by immense Italian 
pines, and an undergrowth of yew ; you are then let 
out, as it were, into daylight, and into a charming peep 
of one of the lakes, by the most delicate gradations of 
dark to light, first going through not only the colors but 
also the changes of fonn of the following trees : Cedars 
of Lebanon, Pinus excelsa, deodars, and weeping larches, 
which actually wave and dance you out into the sun- 
light. 
After these trees, you shortly commence in the midst 
of a blazing sun, among the most feathery and delicate 
of the acacias, and grow cooler and darker with the 
coarser varieties, and the rose acacia, all enchantingly 
entangled with the Chinese wistaria, which here flowers 
