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ment of the scenery we have been considering,
it may be useful to offer a few observations
upon this part of our subject. The line of
walk should, I conceive, be regulated by the
size and circumstances of the place. And,
first, of whatever extent the grounds may be,
I would never carry the walk round the
boundary; nothing, as I have before ob-
served, is, to my feeling, so insipid as a long-
continued sweep : and the hanging perpetu-
ally on the boundary, by betraying the real
dimensions of the place, destroys all idea of
extent as effectually as it does that of variety.
Whoever has seen the pleasure-ground at
Caversham (laid out by Brown), cannot but
perceive what an improvement it would be
to wind the walk amongst the noble trees
and rich masses of shrubs, which now trails its
monotonous course by the side of the sunk
fence.
A similar mistake by the same artist occurs
in the pleasure-grounds at Croome, where
there is no escape from the monotonous walk,
and where magnificent cedars, which should
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have been grouped on an open lawn, are
choked by an uninterrupted line of ever-
greens, mixed with flowers equally misplaced.
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