ing delight of a wide extended prospect,* or a view down a steep hill, because they are all fubjects incapable of being painted. Notwithstanding the occasional asperity of your remarks on my opinions, and the unprovoked fally of Mr. Knight's wit, I esteem it a very pleasant circumstance of my life to have been perfonally known to you both, and to have witnessed your good taste in many fituations. I fhall beg leave, therefore, to fubfcribe myself, with much regard and esteem, SIR, Your moft obedient Humble fervant, H. REPTON. Hare-freet, near Romford, July 1, 1794. * An extenfive prospect is here mentioned as one of the fubjects that may be delightful, although not picturesque.-But I have repeatedly given my opinion, that however defirable a prospect may be from a tower or belvidere, it is feldom adviseable from the windows of a constant refidence. C 3 P. S. One P.S. One of the etchings in Mr. Knight's poem has been reprefented as copied from a work of mine; an idea which I believe Mr. Knight never intended to fuggeft: the fame thing may poffibly happen with respect to the place mentioned by you at page 200, and the other "two places on 66 a very large scale (page 215,) as laid out by a profeffed improver of high reputa"tion." Now this being the title under which I frequently feel myself alluded to from our occafional converfations, I trust to your candour to explain, in a future edition, that these places are not works of mine. A LETTER то H. REPTON, Esq. ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PRACTICE AS WELL AS THE PRINCIPLES OF Landscape-Painting to Landscape-Gardening: INTENDED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE " ESSAY ON THE PICTURESQUE." BY UVEDALE PRICE, ES2 A LETTER, &c. SIR, THOUGH upon fome accounts I might have wifhed that the printed Letter you have addreffed to me, had been a private one; yet upon the whole I cannot be forry that you have made it public. I am thereby enabled freely and openly to difcufs the points of difference between us; to enforce fome principles, and enlarge upon others, on which I had touched but flightly. On the other hand, had it been a private Letter, those points might have been more amicably difcuffed; explana |