If it be ridiculous to imitate nature badly in a picture, how much more ridiculous will it appear to imitate a picture badly in nature; an imitation which, after all, must be left for half a century, to be finished by the slow process of neglect and accident. The water at ATTINGHAM having been completed, and a new channel made to connect the river Terne with the Severn, the improvement is obvious to every person who travels the great road to Shrewsbury: it is therefore needless to elucidate these observations by any views of the place, especially as painting can give but an imperfect idea of the situation commanding that extensive range of hills which separates England from Wales.
