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Itronger manner to the boundaries of water. 

 One great reafon for having borders to a 

 gravel walk is, that the operations of hoeing 

 and weeding, (fo neceflary to high keep- 

 ing,) may be regularly and exactly carried 

 on : but water needs no operation of that 

 kind. The very purpofe of a walk makes 

 it inconvenient to have many boughs ex- 

 tended beyond its edge : but they may ex- 

 tend over water without any inconvenience ; 

 and there, befides their breaking the too 

 long continuance of a line, they furnifh ob- 

 jects of reflexion: a very material difference 

 between that and a walk. In drefled walks 

 and roads, though the curves of paths, and 

 of bye-roads, might give hints for correcting 

 their too great famenefs, yet the fvveeps 

 muft in a great degree be regular; and a 

 number of inlets would be ridiculous and 

 inconvenient where you are to walk : but in 

 the banks of water, coves and inlets, with 

 their abruptnefles and irregularities, may be 



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