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far beneath the dignity of the place, it ought rather to 



be carried in a culvert under ground than be 



the huinbl 



hewn at all 



shap 



in 



d scanty quantity that Nature 



allot 



ted : yet it was a stream of sufficient magnitude for the purposes 

 of Art, in the ancient style of Gardening, when Art was boldly 



avowed, and 



stream supplied the fountains 



* 



cascad 



d basins, which then constituted the magnificent but artificial 



To this may be added, that it supplied 



scenery near the house 



the mill 



Leale 



very important object in old times 



and th 



gave its name to the pi 



mil] 



now called Longleate 



We next proceed to the third opinion, viz. that the water 

 should form an apparent river through the whole valley; this 

 I believe, was originally the intention of Greenway * 



ceded Brown, and whose fondness for serpentine lin 

 the water its present shape, at a prodigious expense, 

 contmued the same idea, but reduced the scale of the . 



wh 



pre- 

 gave 



Bro 



wn 



desi 

 of 



gn; and though he has in some deg 



r by various different pools 



ginal 



Rive 



produced the effect 



yet th 



e deceptions are 



It r" d T ed ' ^ ^ ^ m ° St "**»»* * ^ar- 

 he house, where the two plans of Greenway 



brought into contact, without being 



togeth 



and Brown are 



well united or blended 



<< 



M 



Y opinion only goes to the completion of Brown 



to imitate Nature 



m the form of 



id 



a 



larg 



e 



river, and disguise 



• 



Or Bridgeman, discipj 



of Kent, in the first departure from ^^ „ 





