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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 83

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made byland round either end of the lake. A bridge, however elegant for the sake of magnificence, orhowever simple for the sake of convenience, would be improper;because it would destroy the effect of the lake, and give it thecharacter of a river, which its round and abrupt terminationsrender… … 43 EXPLANATION. The ferry-boat to be a broad flat-bottomed punt A. at thebottom is a pulley-shaped wheel and axis B. about a yard indiameter, carrying a rope fastened to the two opposite sides ofthe lake, which will sink to admit the passing of other boats;this wheel is put in motion by the…

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