are seldom pleasing; they do not compose one mass, but afe only a confused number of pinnacles. The confusion is however avoided, by placing them in succession, not in clusters; and a clump of such trees is therefore more agreeable when it is extended rather in length than in breadth.

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Three trees together must for either a right line, or a trinagle: disguise the regularity, the distances should be very different. tinctions in their shapes contribute also to the same end; and variety in their growths still more. When a strait line consists of two trees nearly similar, and of a third much lower than they are, the even direction in which they stand is hardly discernible.

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If humbler growths at the extremity can discompose the strictest recularity, the use of it is thereby recomended upon other occasions. It is indeed the variety peculiarly proper for clumps: every apparent artifice affecting the objects of nature, disgusts; and clumps are such distinguished objects, so liable to the suspicion of having been left or placed on purpose to be so distinguished, that to divert the attention from those sumptons of art, irregularity in the composition is more inportant to them than to a wood or to a grove; being also less extensive they do not adnit so much variety of outline: but variety of growths is most observable in a small compass; and the several gradations often nay be cast into beautiful figures.

The extent and the outline of a wood or a grove engage the attention nore than the extremities; but in clumps these last are of the most consequence: they determine the form of the whole; and both of them are generally in sight: great care should therefore be taken to make them agreeable and different. The case with which they may be compared forbids all similarity between them: for every appearance of equality suggests an idea of art; and therefore a clump as broad as it is long, less the work of nature than one which stretches into length.

nother peculiarity of clumps, is the facility with which they admit a mixture of trees, and of shrubs; of wood, and of grove; in short, of every species of plantation. None are more beautiful than those which are so composed. uch compositions are, however, ore proper in compact than in straggling clumps: they are most agreeable when they form on Lass: if the transitions from very lofty to very humble growths, from thicket to open plantations, be frequent and sudden, the disorder is nore suited to rude than to elegant scones.

XIII. The occasions on which independent clumps may be applied, are nany, They are often desirable es beautiful objects in thensleves; they are sonetines necessary to break an extent of lawn, or a continued line, whether of ground or of plantation; but on all occasions a jealousy of art constantly attends then, which irregularity in their figure will not always alone remove. Though elevations show then to advantage, yet a