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or when any improver has imitated those 

 knobs or knotches, by means of patches 

 and clumps, they are then both ugly and 

 deformed. 



The ugliest ground is that which has 

 neither the beauty of smoothness, verdure, 

 and gentle undulation, nor the picturesque- 

 ness of bold and sudden breaks, and varied 

 tints of soil : of such kind is ground that 

 has been disturbed, and left in that unfi- 

 nished state ; as in a rough ploughed field 

 run to sward. Such also are the slimy 

 shores of a flat tide river, or the sides of 

 a mountain stream in summer, composed 

 merely of loose stones, uniformly continued, 

 without any mould or vegetation. The steep 

 shores of rivers, where the tide rises at 

 times to a great height, and leaves pro- 

 montories of slime ; and those on which 

 torrents among the mountains leave huge 

 shapeless heaps of stones, may certainly 

 lay claim to some mixture of deformity ; 

 which is often mistaken for another cha- 

 racter. Nothing, indeed, is more common 

 than to hear persons who come from a 



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