THE LAWS OF DEVELOPING LANDSCAPE. 



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The power of sight in profile has its limits as shown in Fig. 171, as so 

 excellently particularised by Repton, who states that 28^ degrees limits 

 the sight above the horizontal line, and 58^ degrees below it. This is a 

 simple commencement into thousands of varieties of development. When- 

 ever any plant or building is raised above the ground, the profile of the 

 landscape is raised. 



By observing the laws of sight in profile as in contour, one learns how 

 to fix roads &c. on the salient points of land, as well as to develop there- 

 from. All effects should possess infinite impressions. Terraces around 

 mansions, for instance, are often completely injurious to the building, and 

 all the beautiful value of a terrace to a house is lost by a foolish idea, 

 given in some books, that a terrace should be two-thirds of the height of 

 a house in width, or some other idea, which does not take into account 



