There is a small clump at b [fig. 67], which is of great use in breaking the outline of the wood beyond it; and there is a dell or scar in the ground at c, that may also be planted for the like purpose. It is a very common expedient to mend an outline, by adding new plantation in the front of an old one: but, although the improver may plant large woods, with a view to future ages, yet something appears due to the present day. If by cutting down a few trees, in the front of a large wood, the shape of its outline may immediately be improved in a better manner than can be expected from a solitary clump a century hence, it is surely a more rational system of improvement, than so long to endure a patch, surrounded by an unsightly fence, in the distant hope of effects which the life of man is too short to realize.
