. The art of landscape gardening. are always equal, and the surface of the waterwill always be a perfect horizontal plane. This I shallfarther explain by the following lines [Fig. 11]. The spectator at a, in looking ^on the upper water,will see only sky, because the angle of incident, b, andthat of reflection, c, being equal, the latter passes overthe top of the trees, d, on lower ground: but the same 88 The Art of Landscape Gardening spectator, a, in looking on the lower water, will see thetrees, e, reflected on its surface, because the line of reflec- A Fig. II. tion passes through them, and
. The art of landscape gardening. are always equal, and the surface of the waterwill always be a perfect horizontal plane. This I shallfarther explain by the following lines [Fig. 11]. The spectator at a, in looking ^on the upper water,will see only sky, because the angle of incident, b, andthat of reflection, c, being equal, the latter passes overthe top of the trees, d, on lower ground: but the same 88 The Art of Landscape Gardening spectator, a, in looking on the lower water, will see thetrees, e, reflected on its surface, because the line of reflec- A Fig. II. tion passes through them, and not over them, as in thefirst instance. There are other circumstances belonging to reflectionon the surface of water which deserve attention, andof which the landscape gardener should avail himselfin the exercise of his art. Water in motion, whetheragitated by wind or by its natural current, produceslittle or no reflection; but in artificial rivers, the quietsurface doubles every object on its shores, and for this c— Fig. reason I have frequently found that the surface couldbe increased in appearance by sloping its banks: notonly that which actually concealed part of the waterbut also the opposite bank; because it increased thequantity of sky reflected on the surface. Example. The spectator at a [Fig. 12] sees the skyreflected only from b to c, while the opposite bank is
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