Sacha bridge, liowcvev, ran sGavc^); be- 



coine au object of iiiiitalioiH>tbougii itluight 



without iiupropriety bo suffeved to I'enmii;!; 



and the reason of this diifcrence is veiy ob- 



vious. Indolence, or economy, or a fond- 



• -. " 



ness for what we have long been acquainted 



with, ma}" be admitted as excuses for allow- 

 ing any object to stand in its actual state ; 

 particularly where froni time and accident 

 it had acquired a picturesque character; 

 but to imitate the incongruous parts which 

 Ijad been added from necessity to a well 

 connected design, and make a new piece of 

 patch-work, — though it might prove that 

 the artist had some skill in copying,* would 



* The following anecdote is a curious instance, ho^ ai" 

 talent for exact imitation may be misapplied. In the course 

 of a very long passage to China, the Chaplain's cassock had 

 been so often patched and mended, that it was necessary 

 to have a new one. It was tlierefore seiitito a tailor ^t 

 Canton, that he might make another by it. The Chinese 

 are famous for the exactiiess of their iipitations, and this 

 tailor gave a proof of it in the nevi' cassock ; for he so accu- 

 rately copied every patch and darn of the old one, that, ex- 

 cept by the freshness of the new stuff, it YUas iwppi^siUe to 

 tell one from the other. 



