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tnTIFICIAL WATER, ^c 



It might very plausibly be argued in de- 

 fence of Mr. Brown and his followers, that 

 however easy it may appear in theory to 

 make an artificial piece of water look like 

 a natural lake or river, and to give it such 

 effects as would please the painter, it 

 would by no means be easy in practice: 

 that the mode of proceeding in the two 

 arts, (supposing the end to be the same,) 

 is very difl'erent, as the painter executes 

 his own ideas, while the improver must 

 trust to the hands of common labourers ; 



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