Landscape gardening, painting and perspective

THE Art of Landscape Gardening is in no instance more intimately connected with that of painting than in whatever relates to perspective, or the difference between the real and apparent magnitude of the objects, arising from their relative situations; for without some attention to perspective, both the dimensions and the distances of objects will be changed and confounded. Few instances having occurred to me where this can be more forcibly elucidated than in the ground at THE FORT, near Bristol; I shall avail myself of the following observations to shew what can, and what can not be done, by a judicious application of the laws of perspective.