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the same manner as they are placed in the 

 rude bridges, and near to one of them. 

 These have their effect to the painter's eye, 

 merely as objects in the fore-ground, and 

 as being so perfectly in character with all 

 that is near them : but they are more in- 

 teresting, on account of the number of pic- 

 turesque circumstances which the purpose 

 they are intended fur gives rise to ; and, 

 therefore, trifling as they may appear, are 

 not unworthy the attention of an improver. 

 There is no situation in which they are not 

 interesting to the lover of painting ; but I 

 remember to have been particularly de- 

 lighted with a scene of this kind, close .by 

 the road side in a romantic country, and 

 at a short distance from a town. It was a 

 place where a small cascade had worn a>ba- 

 son in the natural rock : I came suddenly 

 upon it at a turn of the road; it was almost 

 surrounded by women busily employed, 

 but gaily laughing, talking and singing, 

 amidst the noise of beaiting clothes, and the 

 splashing of the water, Somc.of the , clothes 



