Design with artificial water

THERE being no part of my profession so captivating in its effect, and oftentimes so readily executed, as making a large piece of artificial water, it may be proper, in this volume, to give a few specimens of different improvements presumed to have been produced by it:-though, if all that I have written to explain and elucidate this subject were to be inserted, the whole of the volume would be engrossed by it. I must, therefore, for the present, only mention a few places where artificial pieces of water have been ornamented under my directions:* viz., at Holkham, the magnificent lake has been dressed by walks on its banks, and a peculiar ferry-boat invented to unite the opposite shores.

*[This subject has also been mentioned in the following red books, viz., Ferney Hall, Rudding Hall, Widdial Hall, Babworth, Scrielsby, Milton, Livermere, Garnons, Crewe Hall, Brocklesby, Thoresby, Stoneaston, Nacton, &c.]