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by thefe means, their productions not only diflinct in the 

 parts, but alfo uncommonly ftriking in their total effect. 



The cafcades of the Chinefe, which are always intro- 

 duced, where the ground admits, and where the fupply 

 of water is fufficient, are fometimes regular, like thofe of 

 Marli, Frefcati and Tivoli ; but more frequently they are 

 rude, like the falls of Trolhetta and the Nile. In one 

 place a whole river is precipitated from the fummit of 

 the mountain, into the vallies beneath ; where it foams 

 and whirls amongft the rocks, till it falls down other 

 precipices, and buries itfelf in the gloom of impenetrable 

 forefts. In another place the waters burft out with vi- 

 olence from many parts, fpouting a great number of 

 cafcades, in different directions; which, through various 

 impediments, at laft unite, and form one great expanfe 

 of water. Sometimes the view of the cafcade is in a 

 great meafure intercepted by the branches which hang 

 over it ; fometimes its paffage is obftructcd by trees, 

 and heaps of enormous ftones, that feem to have been 

 brought down by the fury of the torrent: and frequently 



rough 



