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by the same brakes which nursed up the 

 trees will climb over them and the rocks. 

 In all this, I have supposed only parts of 

 the banks to be so altered, and the other 

 parts to remain in their former smoothness, 

 verdure, and undulation. I would now 

 .ask, if two lakes, the one universally green 

 and smooth, the other with the varieties I 

 have described, were near each other, 

 which would be the most generally ad- 

 mired ? I cau hardly conceive that any 

 person would hesitate to which of ,the two 

 he would give the preference ; yet it must 

 Jbe observed, that the picturesque circum- 

 stances I have mentioned, arise from what, 

 in other points of view, must be considered 

 as imperfections, and what, in jtheir first 

 crude state, are deformities, 



I will now put the ca^e of an .improver 

 .who had been used to compare nature ajid 

 pictures together, and who intended to 

 make a piece of. artificial water in a valley, 

 the sides of which were .uniformly green 

 and sloping like .those of the lake I first 

 mentioned; this xalley J oppose him to 



