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fcenes ; and Avon-water-bottom, another. The 

 former receives it's name from the fpecies 

 of trees which decorate it -, the latter, 

 from a pool, which occupies it's middle 

 area. 



In foreft language, vallies in general are 

 called bottoms ; tho in fad, they are wide 

 extended fcenes. Mod of them have their 

 little rivulets running through them. But 

 thefe foreft-ftreams are very unlike the ftreams 

 of a mountainous country j pouring among 

 rocks, and fretting over pebbles. They are fel- 

 dom more than little oozing rills, which drain 

 the fpringy fides of rifing ground -, and wander 

 flowly, unobferved, and unobfi:ru<fled, through 

 the vallies of the foreft. The landfcape 

 however, feldom wants their paltry affif- 

 tance. The only way, in which thefe rivulets 

 are of any ufe in the foreft-fcene, is, when 

 they fpread themfelves into little pools, in 

 fome part of the valley, as they do here, 

 in Avon-water-bottom, and as they frequently 

 do in other fcenes ; and the merit of thefe 

 little pieces of water chiefly confifts in draw- 

 ing the cattle of the neighbourhood around 

 their banks, which greatly animate, and in- 

 rich the view. 



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