An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason.

  • George Mason
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of fight, and appears again after a confi- derable interval. I call that the eafy, where every foot of ground, which the eye looks over, is brought into adtual view. The charadter of abrupt fliould certainly be hu- moured, as well as that of the eafy; yet I am afraid, mod modern ground-workers would fooner pare a brow, for the fake of feeing intermediate furface, than encourage the abrupt. The eafy has two recommenda- tions : it enlarges the fcenery; and it is free from thofe vifible obftructions to ocular in- tuition, which the eye naturally abhors. Still this beauty lliould never be obtained by creating either a manifeft incongruity with the adjacent furface, or a continued famenefs of declivity,] FENCES. Uniting the fcenery of a landfcape is the chief purpofe of funk fences. Wherefore they