If large trees, river scenery, or bold inequality of ground, can be included, by enlarging a park, they are sufficient motives; but views of distant mountains, which may be seen as well from the high road, are not features that justify extensive lawn over a flat surface *.
*[One great error, in Mr. Brown's followers, has been the unnecessary extent of parks. It is my opinion, that, provided the boundary can be properly disguised, the largest parks need not exceed two or three hundred acres, else they are apt to become farms within a pale, or they are forests rather than parks.] To do away the impression of confinement at ATTINGHAM, the park should be extended across the road, and thus the stranger will be induced to believe he passes through, and not at the extremity of the park. Secondly, some striking and interesting features should be brought into notice, such as the junction of the Severn and the Terne, which may be actually effected within the limits of the park; and particularly the great arch across the Terne, of which no adequate advantage is at present taken. There are, also, some large trees, and many interesting points of view, which well deserve attention, in a plan professing to increase the number of beautiful circumstances, rather than the number of acres in the park.
