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
verseldom proceeds far along the middle of a valley, but generallykeeps on one side, or boldly stretches across to the other, asthe high ground resists, or the low ground invites its course :these circumstances in natural rivers should be carefully imi-tated in those of art, and not only the… … concave side of the river at b, should have its shores con-cave, or flat; because, by this means, the course of the river isaccounted for. THEORY AND PRACTICE, &c. 205 There is another circumstance, with respect to lines, de-serving attention. The course of a river may frequentlyshew two or…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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