Variety of bank treatment around lakes

It will of course be well understood that we have here not supposed our proposed lake to be located in a valley that must be filled to the brim, or in a tame flat when the water would rise to the same level as the adjacent ground. In such situations there could be but little room for the display of a high degree of picturesque beauty. On the contrary, when the surrounding ground in many places rises gradually, or is naturally higher than the proposed level of the water, there is room for all the variety of banks of various heights, form, and outline, which so spring out of the neighboring undulations and eminences, and connect themselves with them, as to appear perfectly natural and in proper keeping.