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rent will partially undermine the banks, and 

 in places difcover the foil, the roots of trees, 

 or beds of rocks ; there will be places where 

 cattle come down to the water, and where 

 ftones and broken gravel will be left on the 

 fhore ; there will be various interruptions to 

 foftnefs and fmoothnefs, which inftead of 

 deftroying, or weakening, enhance their 

 charms: but if you renounce the piclu- 

 refque, and make choice of unmixed beauty 

 only, all thefe muft either be deftroyed, or 

 in a great meafure concealed : and after all, 

 we mould never forget that the beautiful is 

 no more the immediate refult of fmoothnefs, 

 undulation, and ferpentine lines, than the 

 picturefque is of roughnefs, abruptnefs, and 

 fudden variation; and that beauty, the molt 

 free from any thing rough, is ftill very dif- 

 ferent from what Mr. Brown intended for 

 beauty, as I hope to fhew more fully to- 

 wards the end of this Letter. 



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