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it easily degenerates. To correct those 

 two great defects of artificial water, it was 

 necessary to shew the charms of variety 

 and enrichment, and the practicability of 

 producing them ; and as they are not. 

 meant to exclude simplicity, so neither 

 should simplicity exclude them : they are 

 correctives and heighteners of each other. 

 But it must be observed, that the effects 

 of enrichment can be more distinctly 

 pointed out in theory, and more certainly 

 created in practice, than those of simplicity 

 in its genuine sense. The charm of a sim- 

 ple view on a river, consists in having a few 

 objects happily placed. A small group of 

 trees, a single tree with no other back- 

 ground than the sky, or a bare hill ; a mere 

 bush, a tussuck, may happen to give that 

 character : and any addition, any diminu- 

 tion, might injure or destroy quel tantim 

 che fa tutto. To leave such slight, but es- 

 sential circumstances unaltered, is a matter 

 of some feeling and judgment: to place 

 them, still more so; and the attempt might 

 often produce unconnected spots: but 



