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are seldom pleasing; they do not compose one nass, but are only a confused number of pinnacles. The confusion is however avoided, by placing them in succession, not in clusters; and a clump of such trees is therefore more acrceable when it is extended rather in length than in breadth.

Three tres together must for either a right line, or a trinagle: to disguise the regularity, the distances should be very different. Distinctions in their shapes contribute also to the same end; and variety in their growths still more. When a strait line consists of two trees nearly similar, and of a third ruch lower than they are, the oven direction in which they stand is hardly discernible.

If humbler growths at the extremity can discompose the strictest recularity, the use of it is thereby recommended upon other occasions. It is indeed the variety peculiarly proper for clumps: every apparent artifice affecting the objects of nature, discusts; and clumps are such distinguished objects, so liable to the suspicion of having been left or placed on purpose to be so distinguished, that to divert the attention from those sumptons of art, irregularity in the composition is more inportant to them than to a wood or to a grove; being also less extensive they do not admit so much variety of outline: but variety of growths is most observable in a small compass; and the several gradations often may be cast into beautiful figures.

The extent and the outline of a wood or a crove engage the attention more than the extremities; but in clumps these last are of the most consequence: they determine the form of the whole; and both of them are generally in sight: great care should therefore be taken to make then agreeable and different. The case with which they may be compared forbids all similarity between them: for every appearance of equality sugcosts an idea of art; and therefore a clump as broad as it is long, seems less the work of nature than one which stretches into length.

Another peculiarity of clumps, is the facility with which toy admit a mixture of trees, and of shrubs; of wood, and of grove; in short, of every species of plantation. None are more beautiful than those which are so composed. Cuch compositions are, however, more proper in com→ pact than in straggling clumps: they are most agreeable when they form on? mass: if the transitions from very lofty to very humble growths, from thicket to open plantations, be frequent and sudden, the disorder is more suited to rude than to elegant scenes.

XXIII. The occasions on which independent clumps ray be applied, are many, They are often desirable as beautiful objects in thonsleves; they are sometimes necessary to break an extent of lawn, or a continued line, whether of ground or of plantation; but on all occasions a jealousy of art constantly attends them, which irrecul rity in their figure will nɔt always alone remove. Though elevations show then to advantage, yet a

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