WELBECK. From the number of small promontories and bays, together with its termination full in view of the house, the water at Welbeck had acquired the character, and indeed the name, of a lake: but as a large river is always more beautiful than a small lake, the character has been changed, not only by continuing it beyond the house, but also by altering its line, and taking off those projections which were inconsistent with the course of a natural river. This is discovered in fig. 26, as compared with fig. 25; the former figure also shews, in some degree, the effect of raising the earth towards the house; though it appears, in the reality, much more striking, from the difference of the scale on which it is presented. In this view [fig. 26], only a very small part of the house is exhibited, merely to shew its situation; the design for the proposed additions to this front not being finally settled.
