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others the most fervent enthusiasm. Tlie 

 bridge is built over a rapid river ; at some 

 distance higher up, stands a mill, in the ma- 

 nagement of Avhicli the painter has shewn 

 the greatest skill and judgment. A mill, 

 such as those which Ruysdal, Waterlo, or 

 Hobbima painted (excellent as they are in 

 their kind,) would, on account of their 

 broken forms, and strongly marked intri- 

 cacy and irregularity, be ill suited to the 

 solemnity of such a subject. Bourdon has, 

 therefore, made the general fomi of the 

 buildinsj of a more massive and uniform 

 kind, though sufficiently varied ; and at the 

 same time that he has, with great truth, 

 marked the intricacy of the wheels, and the 

 effect of water in motion, he has kept the 

 whole in such a mass of broad shadow, that 

 nothing presses upon the eye, or interferes 

 with the style of the picture : yet, on in- 

 spection, all the circumstances of intricacy, 

 and motion, amuse the mind ; and (what is 

 the true character and use of the pictu- 

 resque in such cases) relieve it from the 



