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breadth be not given to the bottoms by flattening them; and in any other instances, small portions of an inclined or horizontal plane may be introduced into an irregular composition. Care only must be taken to keep them down as subordinate parts and not to suffer them to become principal.

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There are, however, occasions on which a plane may be principal: a hanging level often produces effects not otherwise attainable. large dead flat, indeed, raises no other idea than that of satiety: the eye finds no a usement, no repose, on such a level: it is fatigued unless timely reli ved by an adequate termination; and the strength of that termination will compensate for its distance. A very wide plain, at the foot of a nountain, is less tedious than one of uch less compass, surrounded only by hillocks. A flat therefore of considerable extent may be hazarded in a garden, provided the boundaries also be considerable in proportion; and if, in a dit on to their importance, they become still nore interesting by their beauty, then the facility and distinctness with which they are seen over a flat,. makes the whole an agreeable composition. The Greatness and the beauty of the boundary are not, however, alone sufficient; the form of it is of still more consequence. A continued range of the noblest wood, or the finest hill, would not cure the insipidity of a flat: a less important, a less pleasing boundary, would be more effectual, if it traced a more varied outline; if it advanced sometimes boldly forward, sometimes retired into deep recesses; broke all the sides into parts, and marked even the plain itself with irregularity.

At Moor Park*, on the back front of the house, is a lawn of about thirty acres, absolutely flat; with falls below it on one hand, and heights above it on the other. The rising ground is divided into three great parts, each so distinct and so different, as to have the Sir William Temple's Desctintion of the Carien at loor lark, the Seat of Sir Laurence Dundass, near Fickmansworth, in Tertfordshire. "The perfectest figure of a garden I ever saw, either at hoe or abroad, was that of oor Park in Hertfordshire, when I know it about thirty years ago. It was made by the Countess of Pedford, esteemed amongst the greatest wits of her time, and celebrated by Doctor Donne; and with very great care, excellent contrivance, and much cost; but greater sums may be thDown away without effect or honour, if there want sense in proportion to money, or if nature he not followed, which I take to be the great rule in this, and perhaps in every thing elco, as far as the conduct not only of our lives, but our governments." shall see how natural that adni red garden was.)

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"Because I take the garden I have named to have been in all kils the ost beautiful and perfect, at least in the figure and disposition that I have ever seen, I will describe it for a nodel to those that meet with such a situation, and are above the rocards of common expence.

This garden seens to have been made after the plan laid down by Lord Bacon, in his 46th essay, to which, that I may not multiply quotations, I will refer the reader.

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