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Book: Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, 1795
Chapter: Chapter 4: Concerning water

Gayhurst Water, Buckinghamshire

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Gayhurst. The water in the park, though it consists of several pieces of different levels, has the effect of being in one single sheet when seen from the house: this was very ingeniously executed by Mr. Brown; but I have also connected the neighbouring river with the park, by means of a dressed walk which passes under the turnpike road; and the banks of this river are worthy of every effort to make them a part of the beautiful scenery of the place.