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to 



n all mountainous countries, it is common to place trough 

 ceive the water which flows from the nei&rhhourinsr hilb 



These by the road sid 



drinking places for Cattl 



fori 





11 in 



teresting circumstances in the Landscape peculi; r i<> romantic 



scenery, while the interest is 



I mi My heightened 



flecti 



n 



? 



that the 



r< 



pply is not the scanty pro 



of 



(Milan 



labour and mechanism, but flows from that source whence the 

 most mighty rivers derive their existence: perhaps there is 

 hardly a more striking example of the inexhaustible bounty oi 

 Providence, than may be drawn from the never-ceasing over- 

 flow of " L'abreuvoir des Montagues" 



THE WEIR 



Instead of a magnificent and costly bridge at a distance 



from the house, I should 



propose crossing 



the water immedi- 



ately opposite, by means of a Weir. The surface of this Weir 



may be levelled and paved with flat stones, to the width of 

 fifteen or twenty feet, at about eighteen inches or two feet be- 

 low the common summer height of the river, making a safe ford 

 for carriages ; and, by inserting large blocks of stone, a bridge 

 of timber or cast-iron may be thrown over for horses and foot 





passengers, above the common Summers flood, but so strongly 

 secured as to bear the Winter torrents to flow over the whole. 



A stream from the river may be brought sufficient to turn 

 the under-shot wheel of a corn-mill, or it may be worked by 



