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overflowing, and that of a permanent piecfc 

 of water neither formed nor improved by 

 art, is, that the flood-water is in general 

 every where even with the grass, that there 

 are no banks to it, nothing that appears 

 firmly to contain it. In order, therefore, 

 to impress on the whole of any artificial 

 water a character of age, permanency, 

 capacity, and above all, of naturalness as 

 well as variety, some degree of height and 

 of abruptness in the banks is required, and 

 different degrees of both; some appearance 

 of their having been in parts gradually 

 worn and undermined by the successive 

 action of rain and frost, and even by that 

 of the water when put in motion by winds: 

 for the banks of a mill-pond, which is pro- 

 verbial for stillness, are generally under- 

 mined in parts by a succession of such 

 accidental circumstances. All this diversity 

 of rough broken ground, varying in height 

 and form, and accompanied with projecting 

 trees and bushes, will readily be acknow- 

 ledged to have more painter-like; effects^ 

 than one bare, uniform slope of grass-; that 



