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is unable l)v auy immediate operation to 

 create those effects, she must have recourse 

 to nature, that is, to accident ; whose ope- 

 ration, though she cannot imitate, she can, 

 in a great measure, direct. If, therefore, 

 an improver wishes to break the uniformity 

 of a green sloping bank, rising however 

 from the water with a quick, though an 

 equal ascent, he will ol>lige his workmen, 

 after he has marked out the general forms 

 and sizes of those breaks, to cut down the 

 banks perpendicularly, and then to under- 

 mine them in different degrees. By this 

 method, though he be unable to copy the 

 particular breaks with which he may have 

 been pleased, he will be certain of imitat- 

 ing their general character. By this me- 

 thod, likewise, all sameness and formality 

 of lines will necessarily be avoided ; for 

 were each break to be staked out in the 

 most formal manner, each to be a regular 

 semicircle precisely of the same dimension, 

 and the workmen to follow the exact line of 

 the stakes, yet still by undermining it would 

 be impossible not to produce variety. Then 



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