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vol.1 p.111
These two kinds of cascades, the broken, and the
regular, may be combined. If the weight of water be
small, it is true, it will admit only of the broken
fall; but if it be large, it may with propriety admit a
combination of both: and these combinations may be
multiplied into each other with endless variety.
The regular fall admits also another mode of variety
by forming itself into what may be called the successive
fall; in which the water, instead of making one
continued shoot, falls through a succession of different
stories. Of this kind are many of the mountain-cascades in
this country, which are often very beautiful; especially
where the stages are deranged; and the water seeks
it's way from one stage to another.
This is the species of cascade, which was the great object
of imitation in all the antiquated water-works of the last
age. Our forefathers admired the successive fall;
and, agreeably to their awkward mode of imitation, made the
water descend a regular flight of stone-stairs.
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