Brown's Belt.-Brown's belt consisted of a wood, through which a road might wind to various points of view, or scenery shewn under various circumstances of foreground; but the drive was only made among the trees, and under the shade of their branches. The modern Belt.-The last fashion of belt, which Brown never made, is an open drive, so wide, that it never goes near the trees, and which admits such a current of air, that the front trees are generally the worst in the plantation: add to this, that two narrow slips of planting will neither grow so well, nor be such effectual harbours for game, as deeper masses, especially when the game are liable to be disturbed by a drive betwixt them. The belt may be useful as a screen, but, unless very deep, it should never be used as a drive, at least till after the trees have acquired their growth, when a drive may be cut through the wood to advantage.
