Gilpin, William S.: Practical hints upon landscape gardening: with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery (London: Cadell [u.a.], 1835)

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LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

ter suited to the Castle. Ardgowan, in Ayr-
shire, and Kinfauns, near Perth, will illustrate
this observation.
The former, though of considerable height,
yet, being approached by a gradual ascent
through easy swelling folds of ground, might
have been properly crowned with a Grecian
Edifice, had the immediate ground on which
it stands been of sufficient extent and easy
surface. As it is, I think the character of
the mansion the only fault, in a place where
grandeur and variety are more happily
blended than I have any where met with.
Through an opening in the wood, which
clothes the south side of the eminence, you
catch a little bay of the Clyde, enlivened by
all the circumstances of fishing boats, figures,
nets, &c., combined with the straggling
skirts of the village, and backed by a bold
swell of hill. Looking more to the west, you
have the Isle of Bute, with the romantic
peaks of Arran rising behind it, and the sea
extending beyond them to the Irish coast;
whilst following the prospect round to the
north, the Clyde, from the more contracted
line of the opposite shore, assumes the cha-
racter of a magnificent lake, stretching its
varying reaches up to Loch Long, and