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 208
e, however elegant for the sake of magnificence,or however simple for the sake of convenience, would be im-proper, because it would destroy the effect of the lake, andgive it the character of a river, which its round and abruptterminations render improbable. I, therefore, propose tounite these… … [Fig 56.] The ferry-boat to be a broad flat-bottomed punt, a, atthe bottom is a pulley-shaped wheel and axis, b, about ayard in diameter, carrying a rope fastened to the two oppositesides of the lake, which will sink to admit the passing of otherboats; this wheel is put in motion by the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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