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narrow, noify and rapid ; at other times deep, broad and 

 flow. Their banks are variegated, in imitation of nature: 

 being, in fome places, bare and gravelly; in others, co- 

 vered with woods quite to the water's edge; now flat and 

 adorned with flowers and fhrubs; then fleep, rocky, and 

 forming deep winding caverns, where pigeons of the wood, 

 and water-fowl build their nefts ; or rifing into many 

 little hills, covered with hanging groves; between which 

 are valleys and glades watered by rivulets, and adorned 

 with pleafure-houfes, cottages, and ruftic temples; with 

 flocks of fheep and goats feeding about them. The ter- 

 minations of rivers theChinefe artrfts hide either in woods, 

 or behind hills and buildings; or they turn them under 

 bridges, direct them into caverns, or lofe them amongft 

 rocks and fhoals. 



Both in their lakes and rivers are feen many kinds of 

 reeds, and other aquatic plants and flowers; ferving for 

 ornament, as well as for covert to their birds. They 

 erect upon them mills and other hydraulic machines, 

 wherever the fituation will permit. They introduce a 



great 



