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rough wooden bridges are thrown from one rock to 

 another, over the fteepeft parts of the cataract; narrow 

 winding paths are carried along the edges of the pre- 

 cipices; and mills and huts are fufpended over the waters-; 

 the feeming dangerous fituation of which, adds to the 

 horror of the fcene. 



As the Chinefe are fo very fond of water, their Gar- 

 deners endeavour to obtain it by art, wherever it is denied 

 by Nature. For this purpofe, they have many ingenious 

 inventions to collecl: water; and many machines, oflimpre 

 conftru&ion, which raife it to almoft any level, at a trifling 

 expence. They ufe the fame method for overflowing 

 vallies, that is praclifed in Europe; by raifing heads of 

 earth or mafonry at their extremities: where the foil 

 is too porous to hold water, they clay the bottom, in the 

 fame manner that we do to make it tight : and in order 

 to prevent the inconveniences ariling from ftagnant waters,, 

 they always contrive a considerable difcharge to procure 

 motion, even where the fupply is fcanty; which is done 

 by conveying the difcharged water back, through fubter- 



raneous 



