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it with a view to beauty does not belong to this part of the 

 work, yet it may not be amiss to remind the improver, that a 

 very few cartfuls of earth will turn a considerable extent of the 

 most beautiful surface into an ugly one, by distributing it in 

 the concavities ; and, on the contrary, a very few cartfuls taken 

 from the concavities of an ugly surface, and judiciously spread 

 upon the eminences or convexities, will restore beauty. Ground- 

 workers, who are ignorant of this, never fail, in removing earth, 

 to spread it in the hollows ; or, if they have no hollows to fill 

 up, nor undulations to round off (as they term it), their next step 

 is to lay it down in heaps here and there, and form these into 

 little round bumps, which are the most disgusting kind of de- 

 formities. When these bumps are large, they stick a clump on 

 the top of each ; when small, a single tree. 



In forming heads for pieces of water, the materials 

 should be as ponderous as can be conveniently found ; and if 

 not of a nature to prevent that element from oozing through, 

 a wall of clay should be carried up the centre of the head. 

 All water on gravelly soil should be puddled with clay, chalk* 

 adhesive loam, or common earth, well comminuted and incor- 

 porated with water in Brindley's manner. Upon this reten- 

 tive stratum should be laid a covering of earth or gravel, 

 to preserve it from being injured by cattle or other accidents. 



