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vol.1 p.112
regulating principle. I shall not be so precise as to say,
what is the exact proportion of any elegant cascade. Nor is
it necessary. The eye will easily see the enormity of
disproportion, where it exists in any great degree:
and that is enough. Thus when a mountain-cascade falls four
or five hundred feet, and is perhaps scarce two yards broad;
every eye must see the disproportion: as it will also, when
the whole of some large river falls only two or three feet.
Both would be more beautiful, if their falls held a nearer
proportion to their quantities of water.
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