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SECTION VIII. 
TREATMENT OF WATER. 
Beautiful effects of this element in nature. In what cases it is desirable to attempt the 
formation 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 water- 
falls. 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. 
Thomson. 
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 surrounding 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 overhanging sky, give it an almost 
