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sailing and walking. A true disciple of nature, or an improver of good 

 taste, will preserve the character of every circumstance of this kind with 

 the utmost care, as tending to render scenery striking and interesting, to 

 mark particular scenes, and to make lasting impressions on the memory. 

 In every excursion among scenery (and indeed in every thing in life) they 

 are the little contrasts of this kind that fix themselves upon the memory ; 

 and on future recollections ( such ideas, being always the first which are pre- 

 sented to the mind, lead to the whole chain of relative circumstances by a 

 beautiful order and connection. 



The boat alluded to, may be useful in crossing a narrow ferry, where mere 

 utility is kept in view: but, in picturesque scenery, good taste will avoid 

 such incongruities. It is of a piece with the rest of Mr. Repton's im- 

 provements, they tend to prettyness, which, like puns in conversation, may 

 produce momentary amusement. 



The following passage concludes the observations on water : it is to jus- 

 tify the retaining of two small ponds which are upwards of a hundred 

 feet above the level of a serpentine river; all which are seen adjoining each 

 other from the windows in the garden front of Harewood Hall. See 

 Plate XVI. fig. 1. 



" Where two pieces of water are at some distance from each other, and' 

 of such different levels that they cannot easily be made to unite in one 

 sheet ; if there be a sufficient supply to furnish a continual stream, or only 

 an occasional redundance in winter, the most picturesque mode of uniting 

 the two is by imitating a common process of nature in mountainous coun- 

 tries, where we often see the water in its progress from one lake to another 

 dashing among broken fragments, or gently gliding over ledges of rock, 

 which form the bottom of the channel : this may be accomplished at Hare- 

 wood." In description, the impressions from which are often very different 

 from those of real nature, this might have some plausibility j for certainly 



