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or six times as much. This they will do, not in the same 

 manner in all portions of the outline, sloping away with a 

 like gradual rise on both sides, for this would inevitably 

 produce tamencss and monotony, but in an irregular and 

 varied manner; sometimes falling back gradually, some- 

 times starting up perpendicularly, and again overhanging 

 the bed of the lake itself. 



All this can be easily effected while the excavations of 

 those portions of the bed which require deepening are 

 going on. And the better portions of the soil obtained 

 from the latter, will serve to raise the banks when they are 

 too low. 



It is of but little consequence how roughly and 

 irregularly the projections, elevations, etc., of the banks 

 and outlines are at first made, so that some general form 

 and connexion is preserved. The danger lies on the other 

 side, viz. in producing a whole too tame and insipid ; for 

 we have found by experience, how difficult it is to make 

 the best workmen understand how to operate in any othei 

 way than in regular curves and straight lines. Besides, 

 newly moved earth, by settling and the influence of rains, 

 etc., tends, for some time, towards greater evenness and 

 equality of surface. 



In arranging these outlines and banks, we should study 

 the effect at the points from which they will generally be 

 viewed. Some pieces of water in valleys, are looked 

 down upon from other and higher parts of the demesne ; 

 others (and this is most generally the case) are only seen 

 from the adjoining walk, at some point or points where the 

 latter approaches the lake. They are most generally seen 



