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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 245

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medied by another line offence fitting to its greatest projection; and as this same prin-ciple may be extended to roads, walks, or rivers, I shall ex-plain it. The sharp elbow or projection of the fence [fig. 71] a,ceases to be offensive if another fence can be joined to it, as at * Examples of… … It has been observed by the adversaries of the art, thatexactly the same line will serve either for a road or a river, asit may be filled with gravel or with water. This ridicule mayperhaps be deserved by those engineers who are in the habitof making navigable canals only, but the nice observer…

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