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merits in forming it, from those of Mr* 

 Brown. 



If there be an improvement more obvi- 

 ous than all others, it is that of damming 

 up a stream which flows on a gentle level 

 through a valley; and it required no effort 

 of genius to place the head, as Mr. 

 Brown has done, in the narrowest, and 

 most concealed part. He has, indeed, 

 the negative merit (and it is one to which 

 he is not always entitled) of having left 

 the opposite bank of wood in its natural 

 state ; and had he profited by so excellent 

 a model, had he formed and planted the 

 other more distant banks, so as to have 

 continued something of the same style and 

 character round the lake, though with 

 those diversities which would naturally 

 have occurred to a man of the least in- 

 vention, he would, in my opinion, have 

 had some claim to a title created since his 

 time; a title of no small pretension, that 

 of landscape gardener. But if the banks 

 above and near the bridge, were formed, 

 or even approved of by him, his taste had 



