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on which account, a regular and deter- 

 mined form must be given, the lines staked 

 out with precision, and the levels taken 

 with the same regularity and exactness. 

 This I allow to be a real difference be- 

 tween the two arts, and a real difficulty in 

 that of gardening : but if difficulties were 

 always to stop the progress of art, and if 

 the most obvious and mechanical system 

 of operation were always to be adopted, 

 because it would be the easiest, because it 

 would require no invention to plan, nor 

 taste to direct it, — all arts would be re- 

 duced to trades; for that which makes the 

 distinction between them would no longer 

 exist. With regard to Artificial Water, 

 whenever those circumstances which can 

 give it variety and effect shall studiously 

 be preserved, I shall think highly of the 

 taste and judgment of the professor: and 

 should I ever see those circumstances 

 created, I shall then be proud of English 

 gardening. I shall then say that an artist, 

 who could execute such a work by means 

 of mechanical hands, not only had taste, 



