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 629
Water, onthe contrary, may easily be bent, but cannot be broken withoutchanging its fluid character to froth. The course of a river isnever straight, and seldom along the middle, or lowest part of 588 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. the flat, but it shoots across, from side to side, increasing… … Hill. In this sketch [fig. 247], which I have supposed to repre-sent the course of any river, two dotted lines [a a] shew asecond track, which the water seems to mark out during floods,and which leaves, occasionally, swamps or pools of water [6],in summer, after the river has subsided. This sort of…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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