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tions are every where so various, that there never can be a saneness, while the ispostion of the ground is studied and followed, and every incident of view turned to advantage.

In the mean time how rich, how gay, how picturesque the face of the country! The demolition of walls laying open each improvement, every journey is made through a succession of piatures;; and even where taste is wanting in the spot improved, the general view is imbellished by variety. If no relapse to barbarism, formality, and seclusion, is made, what landskips will dignify every quarter of our island, when the daily plantations that are making have attained venerable maturity! A specimen of what our gardens will be, may be seen at Petworth, where the portion of the park nearest the house has been allotted to the modern style. It is a garden of oaks two hundred years old. If there is a fault in so august a fragment of improved nature, it is, that the size of the trees are out of all proportion to the shrubs and accompaniments. In truth, shrubs should not only be reserved for particular spots and home delight, but are passed their beauty in less than twenty years.

Enough has been done to establish such a school of landskip, as cannot be found on the rest of the globe. If we have the seeds of a Claud or a Gasper amongst us, he must come forth. If wood, water, groves, vallies, glades, can inspire or poet or painter, this is the country, this is the age to produce them. The flocks, the herds, that now are admitted into now grace on the borders of our cultivated plains, are ready before the painter's eyes, and groupe themselves to animate his picture. One misfortune in truth there is that throws a difficulty on the artist. A principal beauty in our gardens is the lawn and smoothness of turf: in a picture it becomes a dead and uniform spot, incapable of chiaro scuro, and to be broken insipidly by children, dogs, and other unmeaning figures. Vide Lord Orford on Modern Cardening.

which rise superior to all regulations, and perhaps owe part of their force to their deviation from them. Singularity causes at least surprise, and surprise is allied to astonishment. These effects are not, however, attached merely to objects of enormous size; they frequently are produced by a greatness of style and character, within such an extent as ordinary labour may modify, and the compass of a garden include. The caution therefore may not be useless wit in these narrow bounds; but nature proceeds stil further, beyond the utmost verge to which art can follow; and in scenes licentiously wild, not content with contrast, forces even contradictions to unite. The grotesque discordant shapes, which are often there confusedly tumbled together, might sufficiently justify the remark. But the caprice does not stop here: to mix with such shapes a form perfectly regular, is still more extravagant; and yet the effect is sometines so wonderful, that we cannot with the extravagance corrected. It is not unsual to sco a conical hill standing out from a long, irregular, mountainous ridge, and greatly improving the view: but at Ilam* such a hill is thrown into the midst of the rudest scene, and almost fills up an abyss, sunk among huge, bare, mishapen hills, whose unwieldy parts and uncouth forms, cut by the tapering lines of the cone, appear more savage from the opposition; and the effect would evidently be stronger, were the figure rore co..plete:

The seat of Mr. Forte, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

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