Gents Mag 1790 p.930

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1790 p.930 centuries, he might perhaps improve Nature, or at least concur with her in her improvements. The felling-axe is not to be trusted in every hand. We do not mean every hand that wants its aid to recruit its profusion or necessities, but that which attempts what is commonly called improvement; witness the devastations of Brown at Roche abbey, censured by Mr. G. In the building line of improvement at Keswick Mr. G. prefers bridges to mansions, or the "bringing a few loads of bricks or stone, and puting them together in some odd shape, whitening them over, and calling them a ruin."
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