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from it, the level is an abrupt termination, and a little rin narks it distinctly. To cover that rim, a short sweep at the foot of a swell, a small rotundity at the entrance of a hollow, must be interposed. every instance, when ground changes its direction, there is a point where the change is effected, and that point should never appear; sone other shapes, uniting easily with both extremes, must be thrown in to conceal it. But there must be no uniformity even in these connections; if the same sweep be carried all round the bottom of a swell, the same rotundity all round the top of a hoolow, though the junction be peffect yet the art by which it is made is apparent, and art must never appear. The manner of concealing the separation should itself be disguised; and different degrees of cavity or rotundity; different shapes and dimensions to the little parts thus distinguished by degrees; and those parts, breaking in one place more, in another loss, into the principal formas which are to be united; produce that variety with which all nature abounds and without which ground cannot be natural.

V. The relation of all the parts to the whole, when clearly marked, facilitates their junction with each other; for the common bond of union is then perceived, before there has been time to examine the subordinate connections; and if these should be deficient in some niceties, the defect is lost in the general impression. ut any part which is at variance with the rest, is not barely a blemish in itself; it spreads disorder as for as its influence extends; and the confusion is in proportion as the other parts are more or less adapted, to point out any particular direction, or to mark any peculiar character in the ground.

If in ground all descending one way, a piece is twisted another, the general fall is obstructed by it; but if all the parts incline in the same direction, it is hardly credible how small a declivity will seem to be considerable. An appearance even of steepness ay be given to a very gentle descent, by raising hillocks upon it, which loan to the point, whither all the rest are tending; for the eye measures from the top of the highest, to the botto of the lowest ground; and when the relation of the parts is well preserved, such an effect from one is transfused over the whole.

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But they should not, therefore, all lie exactly in the same direction: some may seen to point to it directly, others to incline very much, others but little, sone partially, some entirely. If the direction be strongly marked on a few principal parts, creat liberties may be taken with the others, provided none of them are turned the contrary way. general idea must, however, be preserved, clear even of a doubt. hillock which only intercepts the sight, if it does not contribute to the principal effect, is, at the best, an unnecessary excrescence; and even an interruption in the general tendency, though it hide nothing, is a blemish. On a descent, any hollow, any fall, which has not an outlet to lower ground, is a hole; the cyo skips over it, instead of being continued along it; it is a gap in the co.position.

There may indeed be occasions, when we should rather with to check than to promote, the general tendency. Count may proceed too hastily towards its point; and we have equal power to retard, or to accelerate, the fall. We can slacken the precipitancy of a steep, by breaking it into parts, some of which shall incline less, than the whole before inclined, to the principal direction; and, by turning then quite away, we may even chango