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there certainly is in planning and directinf^ 

 what is to be a principal feature in a real 

 landscape. 



I have now very fully explained my 

 ideas with respect to the manner in which 

 the banks of water may be prepared, so 

 that time and accident may produce in 

 them those varieties and breaks, which, 

 when properly accompanied, are so much 

 admired by painters. I have likewise shewn 

 how other circumstances, usually called 

 picturesque, such as rocks, stones, trunks 

 and roots of trees, &c. may be added to 

 them, and how they may be blended with 

 what is smooth and undulating. The last 

 finishing, that which gives richness, variety, 

 effect, and connection to the whole ; that 

 which adds a charm to all other varieties, 

 and which alone, when judiciously ma- 

 naged, will in a great degree compensate 

 their absence, is planting. The connection, 

 and partial concealment arising from wood, 

 which are necessary and interesting in every 

 part of landscape, are peculiarly so in the 

 banks of water ; but the degree of conceal- 



