. The art of landscape gardening. vex or steep; and the concave side of the river at bshould have its shores concave or flat; because, bythis means, the course of the river is accounted for. There is another circumstance, with respect to lines,deserving attention. The course of a river may fre-quently shew two or more different bends, which donot so intersect each other as to impede the view alongit; and these may be increased in proportion to thebreadth of the river: but in a road, or a walk, espe-cially if it passes through a wood or plantation, a sec-ond bend should never be visible. The de
. The art of landscape gardening. vex or steep; and the concave side of the river at bshould have its shores concave or flat; because, bythis means, the course of the river is accounted for. There is another circumstance, with respect to lines,deserving attention. The course of a river may fre-quently shew two or more different bends, which donot so intersect each other as to impede the view alongit; and these may be increased in proportion to thebreadth of the river: but in a road, or a walk, espe-cially if it passes through a wood or plantation, a sec-ond bend should never be visible. The degree ofcurve in a walk or road will therefore depend on itswidth ; thus looking along the narrow line of walk, youwill not see the second bend : but in the same Fig. 19. Theory and Practice 3S if the road be broader, we should naturally wish to makethe curve bolder by breaking from it, according to thedotted line from a to b in the diagram [Fig. 19]. When two walks separate from each other, it is alwaysdesirable to have them diverge in different directions,as at A [in Fig. 20], rather than give the idea of reunit-ing, as at B.
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