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by the same brakes which nursed up th« 

 trees w ill cUnib over them and the rocks, 

 lu all this, 1 have supposed only parts of 

 the banks to be so altered, and the other 

 jparts to remain in their former smoothness, 

 verdure, and undulation. I would now 

 ask, if two lakes, the one universally green 

 and smooth, the other with the varieties 1 

 have described, were near each other, 

 which would be the most gcacrally ad- 

 mireil ? 1 can hardly conceive that any 

 person would hesitate to which of the two 

 be would give the preference ; yet it must 

 be observed, that the picturesque circum- 

 stances I have mentioned, arise from what, 

 in other points of view, must be considered 

 as imperfections, and what, in their first 

 crude state, are deformities. 



I will now put the case of an improver 

 who had been used to compare nature and 

 pictures together, and who intended to 

 make a piece of artificial water in a valley, 

 the sides of which were uniformly green 

 and sloping like those of the lake I first 

 mentioned ; this valley I suppose him to 



