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and then into hollows, to take off from the heaviness of the mass. are, however, situations where the convex form should be preferred. hollow just below the brow of a hill reduces it to a narrow ridge, which has a poor meagre appearance; and an abrupt fall will neve. seem to join wit a concave form immediately above it; a sharp edge divides then; and to connect them, that edge must be rounded, or at least falttoned; which is, in fact, to interpose a convex or a level.

IV. In made ground, the connection is, perhaps, the principla consideration. A swell which nts it is but a heup; a hollow but a hole; and both appear artificial; the one seens placed upon a surface to which it does not belong; the other dug into it. on the great scale of nature indeed, either may be so considerable in itself, as to make its relation to any other almost a matter of indifference; but on the smaller scale of a garden, if the parts are disjointed, the effect of a whole is lost; and the union of all is not more than fufficient to preserve an idea of greatness and importance, to spots which must be varied, and emot be soacious. Little inequalities are besides in nature usually well blended together; all lines of separation have, in a course of time, been filled up; and therefore, when in made ground they are left open, that ground appears artificial.

Sven where artifice is avowed, a breach in the connection offends the eye. The use of a fosse is merely to provide a fence, without obstructing the view. To blend the garden with the country is no part of the idea; the cattle, the objects, the culture, without the sunk fence, ure discordant to all within, and kep up the division. A fosse may open the most polished lawn to a com-field, a road, or a common, though they mark the very point of separation. It Lay be made on purpose to show objects which cannot, or ought not to be in the garden; as a church, or a Lill, a neighbouring gentleman's seat, a town, or a village; and yet no consciousness of the existence can reconcile us to the fight of this division The most obvious disguise is to keep the hither above the further bank all the way; so that the latter may be sen at a competent istance: but this alone is not always sufficient; for a division appears, if an uniformly continued line, however faint, discerniblo; that line, therefore, must be broken; low but extended hillocks ray sometimes interrupt it; or the shape on one side may he continued, across the sunk fence, on the other; as when the ground sinks in the field, by beginning the declivity in the garden. Troes too without, connected with those within, and seening part of a clump or a grove there, will frequently obliterate every trace of an interruption. By such or other means, the lino may be, and should be, hid or disguised; not for the purpose of deception, (when all is done we are seldon deceived) but to preserve the continued surface entire.

If, where no union is intended, a line of separation is disagre sable it must be disgusting, when it breaks the connection betw on the several parts of the same piece of ground. hat connectio i depends on the junction of each part to those about it, and on the relation of every part to the whole. To co..plete the former, such shapes should be contiguous as most readily unite; and the actual aivision between then should be anxiously concealed. If a swell descends upon a level; if a ho low sinks

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