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The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of the late Humphry Repton, esq., being his entire works on these subjects : ...with historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and copious alphabetical index (1840)

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman · leaf 194

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er should avail himself in the exercise ofhis art. Water in motion, whether agitated by wind or by itsnatural current, produces little or no reflection; but in arti-ficial rivers, the quiet surface doubles every object on itsshores, and, for this reason, I have frequently found that thesurface… … Example. The spectator at [fig. 49] a, sees the sky re-flected only from b to c, while the opposite bank is round ;but if sloped to the shaded line, less of the bank will bereflected in the water, and the quantity of sky seen in thewater, will be from b to d ; and as the brilliancy of still water x…

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