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lessly laid upon each other: two fan fountains, on either side of the parent 

 pipe, also exhibit their pipes above the plain surface of the pond, completing 

 a group totally at variance with either order or taste. Had jets risen out of 

 small rocky cones, forming part of a natural-looking rocky island in the midst 

 of a natural-looking lake, it would have been more in character than 

 springing, as they do, from bare iron pipes associated with a stone-heap! The 

 sculptor's art might surely have been more happily and tastefully employed, 

 had it been intended to make the most of the advantages which this water 

 power affords. The iron pipes, or heaps of stones, at all events should not 

 have been allowed to appear. 



Again, in following the walk through the wood towards the grand 

 conservatory, some extensive artificial rock-work is seen. I think this has, 

 generally, an agreeable and natural effect; its intricate outline, blended 

 with natural wild growths, is excellent. In many cases, in fact, the stones 

 are so well bedded as to be perfectly deceptive. But I disapprove of the 

 paltry arches which span the walks. Such arches are never seen in nature, 

 and ought never to have been introduced. Any attempt at arched rockery 

 should be nothing short of subterraneous passages or caverns, in connexion 

 with the most massive parts of the rock-work, and should be sufficiently 

 crooked and elongated to prevent their being seen through from end to end. 



The solid perpendicular parts or blocks of the rock are particularly well 

 managed ; in fact, the cemented parts almost defy detection. So admirably, 

 indeed, is this done, that it seems a pity to expose the secret by which the 

 little fall trickles from one of the blocks forming part of this rock-work. If 

 the spectator examine it, he will find it to be some feet higher than that part 

 of the hill which the rock faces, and to which it is attached, making it 

 palpable that a pipe must be employed to raise the water over the stone, 

 which is only some few feet in diameter, and consequently not sufficiently 

 extensive to admit of any fissure from which a natural stream might issue. 

 Consequently art is too visible for the visiter to be surprised ; which must 

 have been otherwise had the rock been larger, and the deception effected as 

 at the dropping well at Knaresbro', where the idea is well carried out. 



In the midst of this rockery at Ckatsworth, a straight walk, of about 

 twenty yards or more in length, passes through a sort of hollow or slack, and 

 closes at each end in a flight of formal or dressed steps and stone walls. I 



