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stones, rocks, roots, with trees, bushes, and 

 trailing plants, if placed together, must at 

 least produce richness, and variety * 



Hitherto I have supposed, that in some 

 part of the ground where artificial water was 

 to be made, there were originally certain 

 inequalities and varieties of which advan- 

 tage could be taken : but it might be asked, 

 what is a person to do, whose house is situ- 

 ated in an absolute flat, and who still, in 

 spite of the disadvantages of such a situa- 

 tion, and of the absence of all picturesque 

 circumstances, is determined to make an 

 artificial river ? Is he to vary the heights 

 of his banks, or to break them, when all 



* That species of simplicity which arises from the ob- 

 jects being few, has in many cases a distinct and peculiar 

 charm, and should m those cases be most carefully pre- 

 served. There is, however, another kind of simplicity, 

 which is of ntore extensive consequence; I mean simplicity 

 and unity of effect — 



Deiiique sit (juulvis simplex duntaxat et uaum. 

 Wherever intricacy, variety, and enrichment disturb that 

 unity, thoy are highly injurious; but where they do not, 

 unless they should interfere with simplicity so pleasing m 

 itself, and so clearly marked out as not to be mistaken, they 

 surely in most instances will plead their own excuse. 



