breadth be not given to the bottoms by flattening them; and in many other instances, shall 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 suffor them to become principal.

There are, however, occasions on which a lane wy 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: use ent, no repose, on such a level: it is fatiguod unless timely reli ved by an adecuate ter intion; and the strength of that termination will compensate for its distance. A very wido plain, at the foot of a :ountain, is less todious than one of uch less capass, surrounded only by hillock. .. flt therefore of considerable extent may be hazeriod in a (urden, provided the boundaries also be considerable in proportion; and if, in a dit on to their importance, they become still more interesting 1 Meir beauty, thon the facility and distinctness with which they ge on ov I a flat, makes the whole an arr ochle co position. The gros troca and t'e beauty of the boundary are not, however, alore eu.ficient; the forn of it is of still ore consequence. A continued range or the noblest wood, or the finest hill, would not even cipidity of a flat: a less important, a los pleasing bord: my, woule ore 024cctual, if it traced a more variel outline; 12 1f advinced soneti. boldly forward, sometimes retired into deep penasor; broke all the sides into parts, and marked even the plain itself with irregularity.

It loor Park", on the back front of the house, is a lean of about thirty acres, absolutely flat; with falls below it on on hand, and heights above it on the other. The hiring cround is divided into three great parts, each so distinct and so ifferent, as to have the *Sir William "ople's Jesti tion or ta arden & sor Tark, the Beat of Sir Laurence Dundass, near Mickiansworth, in Fertfordshire. "The perfectest figue of a garden ever sw, either at ho..o or ebroad, was that of oor ark in Hertfordshire, when I know it about thirty yours ago. It was node by the Countess of "odford, osteomed a:ongst the greatest wile of r tino, and colerated by ootor one, and with very great care, cxcollent cortrivence, and amch cost; but Creater sums may be throw away without offcct or honor, if there wait sense in proportion to onoy, or if naturo be not followe, which I take to be the great rule in this, and perhaps in every thing else, as fa as the conduct not only of our lives, but our governments." (70 shall see how natural that adidrod garden was.)

11 kin lo disposition

"Because I take the garden i have naned to have been in the ost beautiful and parfoot, at least in the figure a that I have ever seen, ! will derariho it for a rolel to those that meet with such a situation, an ere above the records of common exponco.

This garden seems to have been made after the plan laid down by Lord Dacon, in his 46th essay, to which, tht Inay not multiply quotations, I will refer the reader.