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 580
works of art, at different periods, that it is difficult toascertain precisely what were the natural levels; but it is notimprobable that the abbey was originally placed across thevalley, or near the conflux of the two small rivulets; leavinga space on one side, if not on both, for the water to… … The natural surface is the shaded line. That natural sur-face is now altered to the lower dotted line [a~\ : the earthhad been brought, and filled in, to the upper dotted line [6],making a plane, or, rather, an inclined plane, sloping towardsthe windows of the south front: [c is the floor of the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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