158 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



explore what is thus hidden creates an in- 

 terest beyond any that complete disclosure 

 could afford. The small but beautiful arti- 

 ficial lake at the Priory, near Stanmore, is an 

 illustration of what has been here stated ; 

 where the form of the lake, the conduct- 

 ing of the walk, the beauty of the openings 

 to the water, and the appropriateness and 

 variety of the interposing masses, groups, 

 and single trees, &c. afford a striking ex- 

 ample of the correct taste that executed the 

 whole, and which has also dictated the theory 

 on which it was formed.* This theory, as 

 detailed at large in the Essays on the Pic- 

 turesque, will be read with great advantage 

 by those persons who wish to give to artificial 

 water the character of nature. 



Had the piece of water in the pleasure 

 grounds of Buckingham Palace been formed 

 on such a model, the effect would have been 

 strikini]^. The water, instead of beincn acces- 

 sible on all sides, would have been carried 



* Since the first edition was printed, I have been in- 

 formed by the Earl of Aberdeen, that this beautiful lake, 

 and indeed the whole of the intei'esting scenery of the 

 Priory? was formed under the immediate direction of the 

 late Marquis of Abercorn. 



