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cumstances which often make it picturesque. 

 The side of a smooth green hill, torn by 

 floods, may at first very properly be called 

 deformed ; and on the same principle, 

 though not with the same impression, as a 

 gash on a living animal. When the raw- 

 ness of such a gash in the ground is soften- 

 ed, and in part concealed and ornamented 

 by the effects of time, and the progress of 

 vegetation, deformity, by this usual process, 

 is converted into picturesqueness; and this 

 is the case with quarries, gravel-pits, &c. 

 which at first are deformities, and which in 

 their most picturesque state, are often con- 

 sidered as such by a levelling improver. 

 Large heaps of mould or stones, when they 

 appear strongly, and without any connec- 

 tion or concealment above the surface of 

 the ground, may also at first be considered 

 as deformities, and may equally become 

 picturesque by the same process. 



This connection between picturesqueness 

 and deformity cannot be too much studied 

 by improvers, and among other reasons, 



from motives of oeconomy. There are ia 



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