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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 178

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mply put back to the placesfrom whence it had been taken, the expense of its removalwould have been greater than the method which occurred tome as more advisable ; viz. to fill up the chasms partly, bylevelling the sides into them, and raising a bank with a wallto exclude the footpath, as shewn in… … Chasm By this expedient we hide the objectionable part of theview, and by planting the raised heap of earth we produce adegree of privacy and seclusion in this newly created valleywithin the pleasure-grounds, which was never before knownor expected in this open situation. The…

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