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and serve for communication with the opposite divisions on each side 

 of the rivulet. 



Cascades and other waterfalls have also a fine effect, where there 

 is a constant plentiful stream and the situation proper to give the 

 water a due fall from a higher to a lower part, upon a parcel of 

 rugged stones, to increase the noise and break and disperse the 

 water. 



In some grounds, by their natural situations, water may be ob- 

 tained at a moderate expense; as sometimes a contiguous vale or 

 meadow, bounded by rising ground, and with a brook or rivulet con- 

 stantly running through it, may be easily thrown into the most agree- 

 able form ; and sometimes large springs issuing from an upper ground, 

 and running down a moderate descent between two rising grounds to 

 some vale below, may either form one entire lake, &c., or be contrived 

 by making proper heads at distances to form several lakes strung 

 together, as it were, one above another, up to the beginning of the 

 spring; each head may form a beautiful waterfall or cascade, having 

 the rising grounds on each side embellished with plantation clumps. 



Lakes and artificial rivers may also be contrived in a flat or level 

 ground, where there are any contiguous brooks that can be conducted 

 to supply them with water. 



All pieces of water should generally be contrived in a natural imita- 

 tion, as much as the situation will admit ; and its boundary on all 

 sides should be grass-ground to some considerable width, sloped off as 

 easy as possible, corresponding with the other adjacent grass-ground, 

 to admit of a prospect of the water at some distance. 



On the verges of large compartments of water, some Babylonian 

 or Weeping Willows, disposed in particular situations, singly at dis- 

 tances, sometimes in concave and- projecting parts, terminations, &c., 

 will have a very agreeable effect in their long, bending, arched 

 branches, and numerous pendulous shoots, suspended over the water 

 in a loose waving manner, sometimes sweeping the surface thereof; 

 and when arrived to some considerable growth in their numerous low 

 pendent branches suspended all round, display an air of peculiar 

 solemn grandeur. 



The various compartments of ground intended for the different 

 plantations should be digged or trenched for the reception of the 

 plants, particularly for all plantations of shrubbery, and wilderness 

 quarters, flower compartments, &c. ; and the ground for clumps 

 should, if not thought too expensive, be raised above the common 

 level in a gentle swell ; especially all detached compartments, such 

 as shrubbery clumps, and flower partitions ; and most other detached 

 compartments of ground for any kind of ornamental planting in gar- 

 dens. These should generally be raised in a moderate rounding 

 swell gradually from each side to the middle ; or for any continued 

 side plantation, it may be raised in a gentle slope ; for the swelling 

 and sloping figure always strikes the eye the most agreeably, as well 

 as shows the plants to the best advantage. 



But where intended to have groves of stately trees, or any straight 

 ranges of trees, either single or double lines, forming a walk or ave- 



