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through all the varieties of distance; which are
still farther improved by a little degree of obliquity, in
the position of the island.
He who should take upon him to ornament such a scene as
this, would have only to conduct his walk and plantations,
so as to take advantage of the grand parts of the continent
around him;- to hide what is offensive - and, amidst a
choice of great and picturesque scenes, to avoid shewing too
much. As he would have, at all times, an exuberance of
water, he should not be ostentatious in displaying it. It
would be a relief to the eye sometimes to exclude it wholly;
and to introduce a more sylvan scene, with distant mountains
rising above it. A transient glance of the water, with some
well-chosen objects beyond it, would often also have a good
effect; and sometimes a grand expansion of the whole.- Thus
the objects around, tho unmanageable in themselves, might be
brought under command by the assistance of an insular
situation.
With regard to the ornamenting of such a scene, an
elegant neatness is all the improver
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