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for it does not rise quite to a point, and the want of perfect regularity seems a blemish. Whether such a mixture of contrarieties would for a length of time be engaging can be known only to those who are habituated to the spot. It certainly at first sight rivets the attention. But the conical hill is the most striking object; in such a situation it appears more strange, more fantastic, than the rude shapes which are heaped about it; and together they suit the character of the place, where nature seems to have delighted to bring distances together; where two rivers, which are ingulphed many miles asunder, issue from their subterraneous passages, the one often muddy when the other is clear, within a few paces of each other; but they appear, only to lose themselves again, and immediately unite their streams, just in time to fall together into another current, which also runs through the garden. Suah whimsical wonders, however, lose their effect, when represented in a picture, or mimicked in ground artificially laid. They there want that vastness which constitutes their force; that reality which ascertains the caprice. As accidents they may surprise; but they aare not objects of choice.

XI. To determine choice to its proper objects is the purpose of the foregoing observations. Some of the principles upon which they are founded will be applicable also, and perhaps without further explanation, to the other constituent parts of the scenes of nature: t ey will there be often more obvious than in ground. But this is not a place for the comparison; the subject now is ground only. It is not, however, foreign to that subject to observe, that the effects which have been recomended may sometimes be produced by wood alone, without any alteration in the ground itself: a tedious continued line may by such means be broken; it is usual for this purpose to place several little clumps along a brow; but if they are small and numerous, the artifice is weak and apparent: an equal number of trees collected into one or two large masses, and dividing the line into very unequal parts, is less suspicious, and obliterates the idea of sameness with more certainty. Where several similar lines are seen together, if one be planted, and the other bare, they become contrasts to each other. A hollow in certain situations has been mentioned as a disagreeable interruption in a continued surface; but filled with wood, the heads of the trees supply the vacancy; the irregularity is preserved; even the inequalities of the depth are in some measure shewn; and a continuation of surface is provided. Rising ground may, on the other hand, be in appearance raised still higher, by covering it with wood, of h mble growth towards the bottom, and gradually taller as it ascends. An additional mark of the inclination of falling ground may also be obtained by placing a few trees in the same direction, which will strongly point out the way; whereas plantations athwart a descent, bolster up the ground, and check the fall; but obliquely crossing it, they will often divert the general tendency; the ground will in some measure assume their direction, and they will make a variety, not a cont. adiction. Hedges, or continued plantations, carried over uneven ground, render the irregularity more conspicuous, and frequently mark little inequaliti es, which would otherwise escape observation: of if a line of trees run close upon the edge of an abrupt fall, they give it depth and importance. By such means a view may be improved; by similar means, in more confined spots, very material purposes may be answered.

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