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changed without restraint of fancy or limita- 

 tion of number. 



Water is so universally and so deservedly ad- 

 mired in a prospect that the most obvious 

 thought in the management of it is to lay it as 

 open as possible, and purposely to conceal it 

 would generally seem a severe self-denial. Yet 

 so many beauties may attend its passage through 

 a wood, that larger portions of it might be 

 allowed to such retired scenes than are com- 

 monly spared from the view, and the different 

 parts in different styles would then be fine con- 

 trasts to each other. If the water at Wotton* 

 were all exposed, a walk of near two miles 

 along the banks would be of a tedious length, 

 from the want of those changes of the scene 

 which now supply through the whole extent a 

 succession of perpetual variety. That extent is 

 so large as to admit of a division into four prin- 

 cipal parts, all of them great in style and in 

 dimensions, and differing from each other both 

 in character and situation. The two first are 

 the best. The one is a reach of a river about 

 the third of a mile in length and of a competent 

 breadth, flowing through a lovely mead, open 

 in some places to views of beautiful hills in 

 the country, and adorned in others with clumps 



* The seat of Mr. Grenville, in the vale of Aylesbury, 

 in Buckinghamshire. 



