Water, when accompanied by trees and 

 bushes variously arranged, is often so im- 

 perceptibly united with land, that in many 

 places the eye cannot discover the perfect 

 spot and time of their union; yet is no 

 less delighted with that mystery, than with 

 the thousand reflections and intricacies 

 which attend it. AVhat is the effect, when 

 those ties are not suffered to exist ? You 

 every where distinguish the exact line of se- 

 paration ; the water is bounded by a dis- 

 tinct and uniform edge of grass ; the grass 

 by a similar edge of wood; the trees, and 

 often the house, are distinctly placed up* 

 on the grass ; all separated from whatever 

 might group with them, or take off from 

 their solitary insulated appearance : in 

 every thing you trace the hand of a me- 

 chanic, not the mind of a liberal artist. 



I will now proceed to the particulars, 

 and will beg the reader to keep in his mind 



mixed w ith the higher parts of speech : our pages would 

 then be a good deal like our places, when all the conjunc- 

 tions, prepositions, Sec. were cleared away, and the nouu a 

 and verbs clumped by themselves. 

 VOL I. ft 



