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Show seaseaesnernnecence GA GE greens, Water—works and Places make Bo Groves, raifing the Allies only to the Levels of thofe thar are near them, and that lead thither. Whenthegreat Eines and chief Valks are laid out, and the Parterres and Works pee a the Sides and eal of them are difpos’d fo walk in them. It is much bettter to have bat twoor three Things a large, than four times the Number of {mall ones, which are but 7 Before the De of a Garden be putin Execution,-it ought to be confider’'d wharit is moft fnitable to the Ground, then the reft will be in en or thirty Years producing a to be the AG of procreating and ing to Thing which before was nor; or, accord e or the School- men, it is the toral Chang e, w hich Sale of a Body into a newon retains no fenfible Part or Mark of its former of the Garden is to be furni fh’d with many the Pallifades are grown up, and the Trees a fpread , For it often ha pens, es a De gn, which looks handfome when itis firft planted, and in good Proportion, Bacciates {fo {mall an ridiculous in Procefs of Time, that there iisa Neceffity either toalterit, or deftroyit intirely, i.fo plant it anew different Defigns, as Tal Groves, Clofe Walks, Quincunces, Galleries and Halls of Verdure, Green Arbours, Labyrinths, Bowling greens, and need s, adorn’d with Fountains, Canals, F € . Which Sor of Works diftinguith a Garden well, and do alfo greatly contribute to the rendring ofit time, when he Corners and Angles of everyPart ofa llow:: Thi MS magnificent. It ought always to be obferv’ d in placing and diftributing the a Parts of a Garden, to oppoletthem the one to the ot As for Example, a Wood toa Parterre or Bowlinggreen, and not to place all the Woodon Side, and all the Parterres on the other is a Bowling-green to be inft a Bafon, for this would be one Gap againtt zanother, which is always to be avoided, by fetting the full againft the void, and che raisd e ag eeable to Sorts of Gard. us maybe di: 1. Gardens on he PW teal Variety. This Diverfity one always be kept, only in the general Defi n of a Garden, alfo in each diftin& Piece ; as if two Gi are upon the Sideof a Parterre, altho outward Forms and Dimenfions fhould be equal: yet for that Variety ‘i Alfo the feveral Parts of each Piece ought to be diverfify'd: If a Bafon be round, the Walk oug ht to be of av: Andthelike is to be obferv’d as to Grafs—Plats and Bow ingGreens, which are inthe Midft of Groves. The fame Works ought never to be repeated on bothSides, except in open Places, where the Eye, by comparing them together, may judge of their Conformity, asin ; Bo artiments Greens, Groves, open’d in and Quincunces: But “in h Groves as are form’dofPallifades and tall ees, the Defigns and out Parts ought ays to be varied; but tho’ they are tobe nt, yet however they ought always to havefuch Relation and Agreement one to the other in their ines and Ranges, as to : and eu gs, and are not fo chargeable Reafon the fame Defign muft not be repeated in both, but they fhould be mzat fo as to ie different within, becaufe le to find the fame Defign on bot ides : So that when one has been feen, there is nothingto invte tl eCuriofity to fee the other: fo that fich { a Gardenfo repeated would be no more thanhalf aDefign, the greateft Beauty of Gardens confiftingin the Ope nings, Glades, and Vifta’s eable. _ Inthe Bufifine{s of Defigns, a meanandpitiful Maanner ought to be ftudioufly avoided, he Aimfhould always be at that whichis and noble; not to make Ca es {mall, and Bafous like Be ies fo narrow, that two Per ce Thus we fay perceive it to be Wood andother fo chang’d as to Fire is generated, when we where before there was only Fuel; or when the Woodis retain no fenfible Character of Wood: In the like manner a Chick is faid to be generated; when we perceive a Chick, is where before was only an Egg, or the Egg chang’d into the Form ofa Chick In Generation there is not properly any Produ&ion of newParts, but only a new Modification or Manner of Exiftence of the old d ones; and thus Generation is diftinguifh’ from Creation. ers from Alteration, in Generation alfo that in Alteration the Subje& remains apparently the fame, and is only chaane’d in its idents or Affections; as Iron, which before s{quare, is now made round; or whenthe @ Body which is well to Day, is fick to Works 4againit the flat, in order to caufe a Monthw: Again, Generation is the Oppofite to Corniption, which is the utter Extin@ion of a former Thing ; as when that which before was an Ege or Wood, is no longer ¢1ither the one or the“other : Whenceit appears, that the ot Generation of one Thing is the Corruption another. a by The Peripateticks explain Generation Changeor Paflage from a Privation or Want ' a fubftantial Form, to the having of fuch be fpoil’ ,7T rents reis a uliar Excellencyin G J a ecaufe fromthe B or one Ter lower Parts andfromothers the Comp artime sre feen, which form fo many feveral Ga a ns oneinde r another, af prefent us with very agreeable Views A different Scenes of T}hings, if the Terraifle not too frequent, and there be good 1 cng of Level between them. Thefe Gardens alfo lie advantageo Water, which may be repeated from other; but they are a great Charg to keer them up » as well as that they coft a great dea the eee ; Diftribution of of its Parts ke datec 1 to thefe different Situatio excellent Defign which would be prof Garden that is flat and ceaa L evel, not ferve for atGra cut a Terrafles, which break off b relatir g to Place of th Gardens ; other Articles. tely underftood imal and Vegeetable Bodies from Seed} d GENERATION, is by Naturalifts defin’ yns allow of no other Change in ition than what is Jocal, and according to their Notion, it is only a Tran{pofition, or of Bsa 3 and ii n this Senfe, srgoing ar Matter is capa the fame mnni or Generations. Of a Grain of Wheat being committed to the Ground, imbibes the Huofthe Soil, becomes turgid, and dilates Degree, that it becomes a Plant, and by a continual Acceffion of Matter, by eth Degrees ae into an Ear, and at intoaSced: This Seed, when ground i Mill, appears in the Form of Flower, which being mixt up with Water, makes a fo of by the Add I ekpchaniiof , Fire, 3 and thisBread being commupera in che ea or, in other Words, ing effe&ed in all S a local Motion of the andtheir fettling again So that where-ever ment or Compofition is in Reality a new thus Generation is reduc’d to or the Coition of others of different Sexes; but of the fame Genus or Kind. Monf. Perrault, and fome of the modern Naturalifts after him, maintain’d, that there is not properly any new ration; that God created all Things at firft, and that what is by us call’d Gexeration, is no more than an Augmentation and Expanfion of the minute Parts of the Bodyof the Seed: So that the whole Species whichare afterwards produc’d; were in Reality all form’d at the firft, and. inclos’d therein, to be brought fo rth and exclos’d to View in Time, and according to a certain Order and Oeconomy. And accordingly Dr..Gardenfays, It is moft probable that the Stamina of all the Plants and Animals that have been or ever fhall be in the World, have pee form’d, ab Ovigine Mundi, by the Almighty Creator, within the firft of each re(peétive Kind: And he who confiders the Nattire of Vifion, that it does not give us the true Magnitude, but only the Prox sortion of Things, and that which feems to our naked Eye but a Point, may truly be made up by as manyParts as feem to be in the whole Univerfe, will aot think this an abfurd or impof thing. Dr. Blair, treating of the Generation of s,fays,Phat when Almighty Godcreated the World, he fo order’d and difpos’d of the Materies Mundi, that every Thing produc’d from it fhould continue fo long as the World fhoi ftand; not that the fame individual Species fhoulid always re main, for they were, in Pracele of time, to perifh, decay, and return to the Earth from whence they came: But that every Like fhould produce its Like every Species fhould produce its own Kind; to or to in prevent a final Deftruétion ofthe Species, the Neceffity of a new Creation, in orde f continue the fame Species upon Earth orr the World. For which Endhe laid downcertain Reguons, by whhich each Species was to be agated, preier ’d and fupported, till in or Courfe of Time they were to be remov’d hence;-for without that, thofe very Beings w hich were createdat firft, mult have continu’d to the final Diffolution of all things, ch Almighty Godofhis infinite Wifdom not think fit. But that he might ftill the more manifeft , he ie all the Enginesof his Omnipo: his Providence to work, by which one Effec& by the Me ans ofcer= another was to fproduce s laid dow n for the Propaion, Mai anc Support ofall crea~ Bei ngs: This his dicinc Providence is e, and thefe Regulations are call’d ¢ Ruil s of Nature, by which it ever ts ordinary Courfe ; and whate om that, is faid to be preter= raculous, or monftrous. in his Account ofthe Creation, tells lants have their Seeds in themfelves, » Words; Aud God faid, Let the Ewth |