A rapid stream, violently agitated, is one of the most interesting objects in nature. Yet this can seldom be enjoyed except in a rocky country; since the more impetuous the stream, the sooner will it be buried within its banks, unless they are of such materials as can resist its fury. To imitate this natural effect, therefore, in a soil like that of THORESBY, we must either force the stream above its level, and deprive it of natural motion, or introduce a foundation of stones disposed in such a manner as to appear the rocky channel of the mountain stream. The former has been already done in forming the lake, and the latter has been attempted, according to the fashion of geometric gardening, in the regular cascade; where a great body of water was led underground from the lake to move down stairs, into a scalloped basin, between two bridges immediately in front of the house. The violence done to Nature by the introduction of rock scenery at THORESBY is the more allowable, since it is within a short distance of Derbyshire, the most romantic county in England; while, from the awful and picturesque scenery of Creswell Crags, such strata and ledges of stone, covered with their natural vegetation, may be transported thither, that no eye can discover the fraud.
