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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 246

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tion to the breadth of the river: but in aroad, or a walk, especially if it passes through a wood or plan-tation, a second bend should never be visible. The degree of curve in a walk, or road, will therefore de-pend on its width; thus looking along the narrow line of walk,you will not see the… … When two walks separate from each other, it is alwaysdesirable to have them diverge in different directions, as at a[in fig. 74], rather than give the idea of reuniting, as at b. [Fig .74.]

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