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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 co..position. Care only must be taken to keep them down as subordinate parts and not to suffer then to become principal.

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 lovel: it is fatigued unless timely relived by an adequate ter instion; and the strength of that terr.ination will compensate for its distance. A very wido plain, at the foot of a nountain, is less tedious than one of ruch less capass, surrounded only by hillocks. flat therefore of considerable extent may be hazarded in a garden, provided the boundaries also be considerable in proportion; and if, in addit on to their importance, they becore still more interesting by their beauty, then the facility and distinctness with which they are seen over a flat, nakes the whole an agr cable 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 rane 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 offectual, 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 on hand, and heights above it on the other. The rising round is divided into three great parts, each so distinct and so different, as to have the Sir Willian Temple's Descti tion of the arden 18 1 5or Fark, the Seat of Sir Laurence Dundass, near Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire. "The perfectest figure of a carden I ever saw, either et home or abroad, was that of oor Park in Hertfordshire, when I now it about thirty years ago. It was made by the Countess of Bedford, esteemed amongst the greatest wits of her time, and celebrated by Doctor Jonne; and with very great care, excellent contrivance, and much cost; but greater sums may be thrown away without effect or honour, if there wat sense in proportion to money, or if mature be not followed, which I take to be the great rule in this, and perhaps in every thing else, as far as the conduct not only of our lives, but our governments." (e shall see how natural that adired garden was.)

"Because I take the garden I have named to have ben in all kinlo the most beautiful and perfect, at least in the figure and disposition that I have ever seen, I will describe it for a model to those that meet with such a situation, and are above the rocards of cornon expence.

This garden seems 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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