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 27
d been simply put back to the places from 8 whence it had been taken, the expence of its removal wouldhave been greater than the method which occurred to me asmore advisable; viz. to fill up the chasms partly by levellingthe sides into them, and raising a bank with a wall to excludethe foot-path,… … By this expedient we hide the objectionable part of the view,and by planting the raised heap of earth we produce a degreeof privacy and seclusion in this newly created valley within thepleasure grounds, which was never before known or expectedin this open situation. The pleasure ground, immediately…
