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Lakes and artificial rivers may also be contrived in a flat or level 
ground, where there are any contiguous brooks that can be conduc- 
ted to supply them with water. 
All pieces of water should generally be contrived in a natural 
imitation, as much as the situation will admit; and its boundary on 
all sides should be grass ground to some considerable width, sloped 
off as easy as possible, corresponding with the other adjacent grass 
ground, to admit of a prospect of the water at some distance. 
On the verges of large compartments of water, some Babylonian 
or Weeping Willows, disposed in particular situations, singly at 
distances, sometimes in concave and projecting parts, terminations, 
Sec. will have a very agreeable effect in their long, bending, arched 
branches, and numerous pendulous shoots, suspended over the 
water, in a loose waving manner, sometimes sweeping the surface 
thereof; and when arrived to some considerable growth in their 
numerous low pendent branches, suspended all around, display an 
air of peculiar solemn grandeur. 
The various compartments of ground intended for the different 
plantations, should be digged or trenched for the reception of the 
plants, particularly for all plantations of shrubbery, and wilderness 
quarters, flower compartments, &c. and the ground for clumps 
should if not thought too expensive, be raised above the common 
level, in a gentle swell; especially all detached compartments, such 
as shrubbery clumps, and flower partitions; and most other detach- 
ed compartments of ground, for any kind of ornamental planting in 
gardens. These should generally be raised in a moderate rounding 
swell, gradually from each side to the middle; or for any continued 
side plantation, it may be raised in a gentle slope; for the swelling 
and sloping figure always strikes the eye the most agreeably, as well 
as shows the plants to the best advantage. 
But where intended to have groves of stately trees, or any straight 
ranges of trees, either single, or double lines, forming a walk or 
avenue, it is most in character to dispose them all on grass ground, 
in which they will appear most rural and beautiful. 
Likewise elegant ornamental trees, both as single standards, and 
in detached groups, or clumps, appear the most beautiful, when dis- 
posed on spacious openings of grass ground. 
All the plantation compartments of shrubbery, wilderness, &c. 
should be planted with some considerable variety of different sorts 
of trees, shrubs and flowers, artfully disposed in varied arrange- 
ments; the tallest behind, the lowest forward, and the different sorts 
so intermixed, as to display a beautiful diversity of foliage and 
flowers, disposing the more curious kinds contiguous to the princi- 
pal walks and lawns. 
Observing, that as trees and shrubs are of two different tribes, 
deciduous, and ever-green kinds, those of each tribe should be 
mostly planted in separate clumps, in which they will effect the 
most agreeable variety; and in some places may exhibit clumps 
composed of both sorts, to cause the greater diversity; and many 
of the most conspicuous deciduous compartments may be embellish- 
