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with duckweed for a stream. But if one can by 

 any means guide a running stream into the domain 

 of one's own property, if the terrain gives any pro- 

 spect of it, one should do one's utmost, and forego 

 neither expense nor pains to acquire such a great 

 advantage, for nothing offers such an endless variety 

 to the beholder as the element of water. 



"But in order to give the water, artificially ob- 

 tained, whatever form it may take, a natural, un- 

 forced appearance, much trouble is necessary. In the 

 whole art of landscape gardening, perhaps nothing 

 is more difficult to accomplish. 



" Several of the rules which I have given for laying 

 out the roads and for the outlines of the plantations 

 can be readily applied to the shape of the water 

 effects. As in the former case one can, according to 

 the requirements of the terrain and the obstacles 

 that occur, bring in sometimes long and sometimes 

 short, abrupt bends, making, for preference, rounded 

 comers rather than semicircles, sometimes even 

 quite sharp tuma^where the water is visibly diverted. 

 Both banks of a stream or brook should follow fairly 

 parallel lines, yet with various nuances, which must 

 be decided not according to one's fancy, but by the 

 laws determined by its course. Two rules hold 

 good almost universally: 



" I . The side towards which the stream turns 

 should have a lower shore than the opposite, because 

 the higher one diverts it. 



"2. Where the current of the water suddenly be- 



