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suredly be unworthy of its name. StiH, 

 however, the alliance between flowing lines 

 and insensible trajisitions, may be shewn 

 from these very curv^es of artificial water ; 

 for if, in addition to the defects of uninter- 

 rupted smoothness and bareness, the outline 

 of the bank were to be cut into angles, the 

 sharpness of such an outline would be en- 

 creased in proportion. 



In places where the grounds ha^c been 

 dressed on Mr. Brown's system, particu- 

 larly in those where water has been intro- 

 duced, the most inveterate defect seems to 

 me to be this, — that the want of variety and 

 intricacy as well as of connection, which 

 is apparent at the first glance, and which 

 takes off from the pleasure arising from 

 neatness and verdurcj is more disgustingly 

 apparent at every step. On the other hand, 

 one of the greatest charms of a beautiful 

 piece of natural scenery, is, that while the 

 general eftect and character are strictly 

 beautiful, the detail is full of variety and in- 

 tricacy : and that is the case in a greater or 

 less degree, in all beautiful scenes in nature, , 



