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vol.1 p.96
have known many a good landscape injured by a bad water
boundary.
This line, it may be further observed, varies under
different circumstances. When the eye is placed upon
the lake, the line of boundary is a circular thread,
with little undulation; unless when some promontory of more
than usual magnitude shoots into the water. All smaller
irregularities are lost. The particular beauty of it under
this circumstance, consists in the opposition between such a
thread, and the irregular line formed by the summits
of the mountains.
But when the eye is placed on the higher grounds,
above the level of the lake, the line of boundary
takes a new form; and what appeared to the levelled
eye a circular thread, becomes now an undulating
line, projecting, and retiring more or less, according to
the degree of the eye's elevation. The circular thread was
indebted for it's principal beauty to contrast: but this,
like all other elegant lines, has the additional beauty of
variety.
And yet, in some cases the levelled eye has
the advantage of the elevated one. The line, which
forms an acute angle from the higher situation
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