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most admired for their beauty — and if the 

 manner in which those islands jjroduce that 

 beauty, be by dividing, conceahng, and di- 

 versifying what is too open and unilorm, 

 — 'the same cause must produce tlic same 

 effect in all watef, however the scale may 

 be diminished ; the same in a pool or a 

 gravel pit, as in an ocean. 



Islands, though very comnwn in many 

 rivers, jet seem (if I may be alh)wed to say 

 so) more perfectly suited to the character 

 of lakes ; and as far as there is any truth in 

 this idea, it is in favour of making the 

 latter our chief models for imitation. In 

 artificial water, the most difficult parts are 

 the two extremities, and particularly that 

 where the dam- is placed ; w^hich, from 



" most pleasing prospects in the world. On the left may 

 " be seeu many beautiful little islands, that extend a consi- 

 " derablc way before yon : and oil the right, an agreeable 

 " snceession^ of small points of land that project a little 

 " way into tlie wafer, and contribntc, with tlie islands, to 

 '^ isender this delightful basin culm> and secure from those 

 *' tempestuous winds, by which the adjoining lajce is fre- 

 " quently troubled."' Morse's American Geography, p. 

 127. 



