| §1. | The difficulty of giving surface to smooth water. | 355 |
| §2. | Is dependent on the structure of the eye, and the focus by which the reflected rays are perceived. | 355 |
| §3. | Morbid clearness occasioned in painting of water by distinctness of reflections. | 356 |
| §4. | How avoided by Turner. | 357 |
| §5. | All reflections on distant water are distinct. | 357 |
| §6. | The error of Vandevelde. | 358 |
| §7. | Difference in arrangement of parts between the reflected object and its image. | 359 |
| §8. | Illustrated from the works of Turner. | 359 |
| §9. | The boldness and judgment shown in the observance of it. | 360 |
| §10. | The texture of surface in Turner's painting of calm water. | 361 |
| §11. | Its united qualities. | 361 |
| §12. | Relation of various circumstances of past agitation, &c., by the most trifling incidents, as in the Cowes. | 363 |
| §13. | In scenes on the Loire and Seine. | 363 |
| §14. | Expression of contrary waves caused by recoil from shore. | 364 |
| §15. | Various other instances. | 364 |
| §16. | Turner's painting of distant expanses of water.—Calm, interrupted by ripple. | 365 |
| §17. | And rippled, crossed by sunshine. | 365 |
| §18. | His drawing of distant rivers. | 366 |
| §19. | And of surface associated with mist. | 367 |
| §20. | His drawing of falling water, with peculiar expression of weight. | 367 |
| §21. | The abandonment and plunge of great cataracts. How given by him. | 368 |
| §22. | Difference in the action of water, when continuous and when interrupted. The interrupted stream fills the hollows of its bed. | 369 |
| §23. | But the continuous stream takes the shape of its bed. | 370 |
| §24. | Its exquisite curved lines. | 370 |
| §25. | Turner's careful choice of the historical truth. | 370 |
| §26. | His exquisite drawing of the continuous torrent in the Llanthony Abbey. | |
