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SECTION VIIL 
TREATMENT OF WATER. 
Beautiful effects of this element in nature. In what cases it is desirable to attempt the forma- 
tion of artificial pieces of water. Regular forms unpleasing. Directions for the formation 
of ponds or lakes in the irregular manner. Study of natural lakes. Islands. Planting the 
margin. Treatment of natural brooks and rivulets. Cascades and waterfalls. Legitimate 
sphere of the art in this department. 
— The dale 
With woods o’erhung, and shagg’d with mossy rocks, 
Whence on each hand the gushing waters play, 
And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall, 
Or gleam in lengthened vista through the trees. 
Thompson. 
H E delightful and captivating effects of 
water in landscapes of every description, 
are universally known and admitted. The 
boundless sea, the broad full river, the dashing noisy brook, 
and the limpid meandering rivulet, are all possessed of their 
peculiar charms ; and when combined with scenes otherwise 
finely disposed and well wooded, they add a hundred fold to 
their beauty. The soft and trembling shadows of the sur- 
rounding trees and hills, as they fall upon a placid sheet of 
water — the brilliant light which the crystal surface reflects 
in pure sunshine, mirroring too, at times in its resplendent 
bosom, all the cerulean depth and snowy whiteness of the 
