The side of a smooth green hill, torn by floods, may first very properly be called deformed and on the same principle, though not with the same impression, as a gash on an animal. en a rawness of such a gash in the is softened, and in part concealed and ground ornamented by the effects of time, and the progress of vegetation, deformity, by this usual process, is converted to picture and this is the case with quarries, gravel pits, etc., which at first are deformities, and which in their picturesque state, are often considered as such by a levelling improver