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 78
several distinct ponds, andnot the series of lakes which nature produces in a mountainouscountry. But the character of this water should rather imitateone large river than several small lakes; especially as it is mucheasier to produce the appearance of continuity, than of suchvast expanse as a lake…
