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HAVING thus considered the chief circumstances, which occur
in distant mountains, let us now inlarge our view,
and take in the lake, which makes the next
considerable part of this romantic country.
The fen, the pool, and the lake would
present very different ideas, tho magnitude were out of the
question.
The fen is a plashy inundation, formed on a flat -
without depth - without lineal boundary - of ambiguous
texture - half water - and half lane - a sort of vegetable
fluid.
The pool is a collection of the soakings of some
common; or the reservoir of the neighbouring ditches, which
deposit in it's ouzy bed
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