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CHAPTER III, 



OF all the effects in landscape, the most 

 brilliant and captivating are those pro- 

 duced by water ; on the management of 

 which, as I have been told, Mr. Brown 

 particularly piqued himself. If those beau- 

 ties in natural rivers and lakes which are 

 imitable by art, and the selections of them 

 in the works of great painters, be the pro- 

 per objects of imitation, Mr. Brown gross- 

 ly mistook his talent ; for among all hi* 

 tame productions, his pieces of made water 

 are perhaps the most so. 



One striking property of water, and 

 that which most distinguishes it from 

 {he grosser element oi earth ? is its being 



