Levelling Ground.-In the "Observations, &c.," many examples are given of changing the surface, or, as it is technically called, "moving ground;" to these I may add, that one of the greatest difficulties I have experienced in practice proceeds from that fondness for levelling, so prevalent in all Brown's workmen: every hillock is by them lowered, and every hollow filled, to produce a level surface; when, on the contrary, with far less expense, the surface may be increased in apparent extent by raising the hills and sinking the hollows. Such operations must, of course, be confined to subjects of small extent, and it is in these that they produce great beauty and variety *. *[I may refer to examples of this mode of levelling ground at Bulstrode, where two small dells in the flower-garden are united into one valley; and at Wilton Park, in that neighbourhood, where a small valley has been formed between the house and the orangery with great effect.]
