If, at the end of a long avenue, be placed an obelisk, a temple, or any other eye-trap (as it is called), it will only catch or please the eye of ignorance or childhood. The eye of taste and experience hates compulsion, and turns with disgust from such puerile means of attracting its notice. One great mischief of an avenue is, that it divides a park, and cuts it into two distinct parts, destroying the unity of lawn; for it is hardly possible to avoid distinguishing the ground on the two sides of such an avenue into north and south park, or east and west division of the lawn. But the greatest objection to an avenue is, that (especially in uneven ground) it often acts as a curtain drawn across the most interesting scenery: it is in undrawing this curtain at proper places that the utility of what has been called breaking an avenue consists.
