Extent mistaken for Beauty.-Hence came the mistaken notion, that greatness of dimensions would produce greatness of character: hence proceeded the immeasurable extent of naked lawn; the tedious lengths of belts and drives; the useless breadth of meandering roads; the tiresome monotony of shrubberies, and pleasure grounds; the naked expanse of waters, unaccompanied by trees; and all the unpicturesque features which disgrace modern gardening, and which have brought on Brown's system the opprobrious epithets of bare and bald. Yet such is the fondness for what is great by measurement, that the beauty of parks is estimated by the acre, and the perfection of walks and drives computed by the mile, although we look at them without interest, and fly from them to farms and fields, even preferring a common or a heath, to the dull round of a walk or drive, without objects and without variety.
