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Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (1805)

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ... · leaf 136

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ated (I believe originally by Mr. Brown) by making onepass over the other, and where the situation requires suchexpence, a subterraneous passage may either be made under the 85 carriage road, as I have done at Welbeck, at Gayhurst, andat other places, or a foot bridge may be carried over the… … ^x. X J) B ^==f Two light gates, like the rail fence to the plantation, are sohung to the posts A. and B. that they will swing either to theposts D. or C. and thus they will either close the spaces D. B.and A. C. leaving open the walk, or they may be shut so as toclose the spaces A. D. and B. C.…

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