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water tumbling down a rocky steep, and uniting itself with a rapid stream, 

 (as is further shewn in the drawing to illustrate this subject,) is very pic- 

 turesque ; but at Harevvood, where not one drop of water flows from these 

 upper ponds, proposed to be thus united with the lower river, except in 

 great rains, or in time of high floods in winter, and where, in place of a 

 rapid stream below, we have a serpentine river, as still and tame as that 

 of Wentworth ; how is it possible to make the application ? Fortunately, 

 the good taste of the proprietor triumphed over such reasoning; and, as I 

 have formerly mentioned, and suggested by a plate, the upper ponds are 

 to be planted, and the lower river changed into a lake. 



Before I leave Mr. Repton's chapter on Water, I beg to refer the reader 

 to his remarks on the same subject in " Hints and Sketches," Chap. IV. or 

 to the " Enquiry into the changes of Taste," page 90 to 95 ; which contain 

 some remarks, mostly taken from the Hints and Sketches, less erro- 

 neous than those in that work, but still true indications of Mr. Repton's 

 manner of arguing and false practical taste. I must confess that. 

 I never read these passages without being astonished that any man could 

 submit them to the world. If any reader does not feel similar sensa- 

 tions to mine in perusing them, it can only be accounted for, by reflect- 

 ing that the effects of description on the mind are often very different from 

 those subjects of real nature which gave rise to them ; and that the gene- 

 rality of readers, and even judges, not having beheld the scenery alluded to, 

 are not competent to separate the impressions, or judge of their difference. 

 Had I not seen the water at Harewood, I should probably, from the same 

 causes, have passed over the above quotation altogether, from not strongly 

 feeling the misapplication of the reasoning. 



From these extracts, either alone, or in connection with those pieces of 

 water which have been formed under Mr. Repton's direction, the reader will 

 perceive, 



1st, That the author has no general or fixed principles upon which he 

 proceeds. 



