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or six times as much. This they will do, not in the same 
manner in all portions of the outline, sloping away with a 
like gradual rise on both sides, for this would inevitably 
produce tameness and monotony, but in an irregular and 
varied manner; sometimes falling back gradually, some- 
times starting up perpendicularly, and again overhanging 
the bed of the lake itself. 
All this can be easily effected while the excavations of 
those portions of the bed which require deepening are 
going on. And the better portions of the soil obtained 
from the latter, will serve to raise the banks when they are 
too low. 
It is of but little consequence how roughly and 
irregularly the projections, elevations, etc., of the banks 
and outlines are at first made, so that some general form 
and connexion is preserved. The danger lies on the other 
side, viz. in producing a whole too tame and insipid ; for 
we have found by experience, how difficult it is to make 
the best workmen understand how to operate in any othei 
way than in regular curves and straight lines. Besides., 
newly moved earth, by settling and the influence of rains, 
etc., tends, for some time, towards greater evenness and 
equality of surface. 
In arranging these outlines and banks, we should study 
the effect at the points from which they will generally be 
viewed. Some pieces of water in valleys, are looked 
down upon from other and higher parts of the demesne ; 
others (and this is most generally the case) are only seen 
from the adjoining walk, at some point or points where the 
latter approaches the lake. They are most generally seen 
