Price, Uvedale: Essays On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 2) (Hereford, 1798)

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It may naturally be expected, that having
entered into fo much detail with refpecl to
the banks of artificiai lakes and rivers, I
fhould fay fomething of their general fhapes.
Wherever a piece of water is principally to
be made by floating the lower ground, the
water itfelf will in many parts take the befl:
of all poflible forms; and will always give
the befi indications in what other parts,
and in what degrees, alterations and en-
largements fhould be made. In one opinion
I am more and more confirmed; namely,
that the characfer of a lake, and not that
of a river, fhould in moft cafes be the
object of imitation. A lake admits of bays
and inlets in every direction ; and where the
fcene is confined, every fource of variety
fhould be fought after. A lake is a whole,
and that whole, upon a fmaller fcale, may
be completely imitated: but of a river, only

where fuch hillocks had been formed, as never ought to be
formect for beauty; and by which they may in a great degree
be united with the reft of the landfcape.

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