preventing any guess or suspicion where the water wasto end, although the end was very near. This is an effect which canonly be produced by islands, or by such plants as root in the water;for where trees or bushes grow on low ground, however completely theymay conceal that ground by hanging over… … A large uniform extent of water, which presents itself to the eyewithout any intricacy in its accompaniments, requires to be broken anddiversified like a similar extent of lawn, though by no means in the ON ARTIFICIAL WATER. 293 same degree; for the delight which we receive from the element…
Landscape gardening · Aesthetics
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