Price, Uvedale: Essays On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 2) (Hereford, 1798)

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country into a flat, the floods, even there,
deepen their channels, and thereby give
rife to many varieties, which never can exift
where the ftream is nearly on a level with the
grafs and this fuggefts to me a remark not
unworthy the confideration of improvers:
when the water is raifed to the level of the
general furface, you can only vary the banks
hy raijlng that furface; but when the water
is lefs high, you can vary the banks by
Jowering, as wel! as by raifing them.

Iflands in artificial water, have, in many
Inftances, been fo fhaped, and fo placed,
as to throw a ridicule on the ufe of them:

* The varieties which the impetuous motion of water oc-
cafions, and the means by which it produces them, are very
diitindly marked in a Pdem of Macchiavehi, called Capitolo
della Fortuna.

Come un torrente rapido, ch’al tutto
Superbo e fatto, ogni cofa fracaffa
Dovunque aggiugne il fuo corfo per tutto;

E quefta parte accvefce, e quella abbaffa,

Varia le ripe, varia il Ietto, il fondo,

E fa tremar la terra d’onde paffa.

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