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changing its fluid character to froth. The course of a River is 

 never straight, and seldom along the middle, or lowest part of 

 the flat, but it shoots across from side to side, increasing its 

 utility by thus retarding its progress; this observation applies to 



all rivers, though I was first led to examine the subject by the 

 tortuous course of the River Manyfold in Derbyshire. 





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Sketch, which I 1 



pposed to represent 



hows a 



d track 



the course of any river, a dotted 

 which the water seems to mark out during floods, and which 

 leaves occasionally swamps or pools of water in summer after 



. This sort of channel may be ob- 



the River 



as su 



bsid 



served at Endsleigh, in the shape of the ground on the left 



bank of the River. 



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Sometimes a River forsakes its bed entirely, and takes one 



ave 



frequently had 



to 



of these new channels ; an 



assist, or retard this operation of Nature, by an interference 



of Art ; but in the present case I shall only revert to the dif- 



ference, which I have endeavoured to establish betwixt the 



