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Water and Bridge in Hyde Parle. 



and recreative enjoyment of the Parks, and though we have 

 little hope that it will be attended to in the proper quarter, 

 we think it well worth recording as an ingenious speculation. 

 The union of the two pieces of water on one level, with other 

 connected improvements, we suggested in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine upwards of seven years ago ; and more recently 

 thafof extending the water into the Green Park, and ren- 

 dering it the boundary of Kensington Gardens (See Gard. 

 Mag. No. I.) ; this last part of our plan, however, has no 

 chance of being executed, since an enormous stone bridge of 

 five arches (Jig. 56.) is now being erected to connect the oppo- 



site banks by a carriage road. But whether the upper water 

 is to be lowered, a water-fall formed, or the embankment re- 

 tained as it is, we have not the slightest hesitation in asserting 

 that this bridge is much too high, and altogether dispropor- 

 tionately large for the situation. If a water-fall is intended, 

 there is not a tithe of the stream or waste necessary to supply 

 it ; and if the present embankment is to be retained along- 

 side the bridge, the effect will be as ridiculous as unpicturesque. 

 If the road must be carried over at this point, a low bridge 

 supported on iron piles, or one composed of a number of 

 low arches, in Claude Lorraine's manner, (Jig. 57.) would be 



