A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland. Sarah Murray

↑ "A gentleman, whose taste stands as high as any man's, observed and lamented the extent of Mr.———'s operations. Formerly, said he, improvers, at least, kept near the house, but this fellow crawls like a snail all over the grounds, and leaves his cursed slime behind him, where-ever he goes."—Vide a Note to Knight's Didactic Poem, called The Landscape.