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to make tlie fweeps; fo tliat in each fweep,
the indented, and the projedting parts, if
they couid be fhoved together, would fit
like the pieces of a difledted map.
Where thefe pieces of water are made,
if there happen to be any fudden breaks
or inequalities in the ground; any thickets
or buihes ; any thing, in ihort, that might
cover the rawnefs and formality of new
work—inftead of taking advantage of fuch
accidents, ali mufl: be made level and bare ;
and, by a ftrange perverfion of terms, ftrip-
ping nature ftark-naked, is called drefling
her.
A piece of fiagnant water, with that thin,
uniform, grafiy edge, which always remains
after the operation of levelling,is much more
like a temporary overflowing in a meadow
or pafiure, than what it profefies to imi-*
tate—a lake or a river: for the principal
diftin&ion between the outline of fuch an
overflowing.
to make tlie fweeps; fo tliat in each fweep,
the indented, and the projedting parts, if
they couid be fhoved together, would fit
like the pieces of a difledted map.
Where thefe pieces of water are made,
if there happen to be any fudden breaks
or inequalities in the ground; any thickets
or buihes ; any thing, in ihort, that might
cover the rawnefs and formality of new
work—inftead of taking advantage of fuch
accidents, ali mufl: be made level and bare ;
and, by a ftrange perverfion of terms, ftrip-
ping nature ftark-naked, is called drefling
her.
A piece of fiagnant water, with that thin,
uniform, grafiy edge, which always remains
after the operation of levelling,is much more
like a temporary overflowing in a meadow
or pafiure, than what it profefies to imi-*
tate—a lake or a river: for the principal
diftin&ion between the outline of fuch an
overflowing.