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of trees, so large that their branches stretch 

 quite across and form a high arch over the 

 water. The next seems to have been once a 

 formal basin encompassed with plantations, 

 and the appendages on either side still retain 

 some traces of regularity ; but the shape of the 

 basin is free from them. The size is about 

 fourteen acres, and out of it issue two broad, 

 collateral streams winding towards a large 

 river, which they are seen to approach and sup- 

 posed to join. A real junction is, however, im- 

 possible, from the difference of the levels : but 

 the terminations are so artfully concealed that 

 the deception is never suspected, and, when 

 known, is not easily explained. The river is 

 the third great division of the water ; a lake 

 into which it falls is the fourth. These two do 

 actually join, but their characters are directly 

 opposite. The scenes they belong to are totally 

 distinct, and the transition from the one to the 

 other is very gradual, for an island near the 

 conflux, dividing the breadth and concealing 

 the end of the lake, moderates for some way 

 the space ; and, permitting it to expand but by 

 degrees, raises an idea of greatness from un- 

 certainty accompanied with increase. The real- 

 ity does not disappoint the expectation, and 

 the island, which is the point of view, is itself 

 equal to the scene, It is large, and high above 



