General Principles-Utility-Scale-Various Examples of comparative Proportion-Use of Perspective-Example from THE FORT-Ground-Several Examples of removing Earth-The great Hill at WENTWORTH.
THE Theory and practice of Landscape Gardening have seldom fallen under the consideration of the same author; because those who have delivered their opinions in writing on this art have had little practical experience, and few of its professors have been able to deduce their rules from theoretical principles. To such persons indeed had its practice been committed, that it required no common degree of fortitude and perseverance to elevate the art of landscape gardening to its proper rank, and amongst those which distinguish the pleasures of civilized society from the pursuits of savage and barbarous nations.
