In some counties the farms consist chiefly of grass-land, but even a dairy-farm must be subdivided into small enclosures: and although it is not necessary that a lawn near a mansion should be fed by deer, yet it is absolutely necessary that it should have the appearance of a park, and not that of a farm; because, in this consists the only difference betwixt the residence of a landlord and his tenant, the gentleman and the farmer: one considers how to make the greatest immediate advantage of his land; the other must, in some cases, give up the idea of profit, for the sake of that beauty which is derived from an air of liberty, totally inconsistent with those lines of confinement and subdivision which are characteristic of husbandry.
