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bed of flowers as with a forest thicket, and he will be as much
disgusted by the fanciful affectation of rude nature in tame
scenery, as by the trimness of spruce art in that which is wild:
the thatched hovel in a flower-garden, or the treillis bocage in
a forest, are equally misplaced.
General principles, or general designs, which may be appli-
cable to all situations, would be alike impossible. The painter
oopieg in their respective places, the eyes, the nose, and mouth,
of the individual, but without adding character his picturewill not
be interesting. The landscape gardener finds ground, wood, and
water, but with little more power than the painter, of changing
their relative position; he adds character by the point of view in
which he displays them, or by the ornaments of art with which
they are embellished. To describe by words the various cha-
¢acton and situations of all the places irt which I have been
consulted, would be tedious, and to give views of each would
altor the design of this work: I shall therefore 'dedicate this
ehaptet to a miscellaneous assemblage of extracts from different
Red Books, without aiming at connection or arrangement. These
may furnish examples of variety in the treatment sof various,
Aubjects; while the reasons on which their treatment is founded
will, I hope, be deemed so far conclusive, that some general
principles may be drawn from them, tending to prove that'
Thee arre Rules for good taste.