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surface with the least possible interruption, 

 Mr. Brown's method of making artificial 

 water would be perfect: but if grouping, 

 composition, partial concealment, variety, 

 effect, be all essential requisites in the art of 

 creating landscapes, especially where water 

 is a principal ingredient, then a very dif- 

 ferent method must be pursued, even where 

 the whole country is perfectly flat. In 

 reality, by sacrificing the effect of water to 

 the surface of grass, the character of amea- 

 dow or lawn is destroyed, yet that of a 

 lake or river is not obtained : for nothing 

 can more completely separate and disunite 

 the two parts of a meadow, than a naked 

 glaring piece of water; and nothing can be 

 less like a beautiful river or lake, than such 

 a pretended imitation. 



In my opinion, he who makes a piece of 

 water, whatever may be its situation, ought, 

 m almost all cases, to consider it as the 

 principal object of his attention : and in- 

 stead of sacrificing its character and effects 

 to a false idea of continuity and union, 

 ought to sacrifice, if necessary, many real 



