A 5f 



ESSAY 



ON 



ARTIFICIAL WATER, 



XT might very plausibly be argued in de- 

 fence of Mr. Brown and his followers, that 

 however easy it may appear in theory to 

 make an artificial piece of water look like 

 a natural lake or river, and to give it such 

 effects as would please the painter, it 

 would by no means be easy in practice: 

 that the mode of proceeding in the two 

 arts, (supposing the end to be the same*) 

 is very different, as the painter executes 

 his own ideas, while the improver must 

 trust to the hands of common labourers ; 



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