Gray's Journal Entry: ‘This cascade is seen through the window of the summer house in Sir Michael Fleming’s garden at Rydal Hall. There is another fall of the same stream extremely well worth seeing though in a different stile of beauty a little above the house. Public mention was first made of the elegant little scene which is the subject of this plate by Mr Mason, the editor of Mr Gray’s letters, nor will the reader be displeased to have an account of it in his own words. “Here nature has performed everything in little that she usually executes on a larger scale; and on that account, like the miniature painter, seems to have finished every part of it in a fluid manner; not a little fragment of rock thrown into the bason, not a single stem of brushwood that starts from its craggy sides but has its pictureque meaning; and the little central stream dashes down a cleft of the darkest coloured stone, produces an effect of light and shadow beautiful beyond description. This little theatrical scene might be painted as large as the original, on a canvas not bigger than those usually dropped in the Opera House.”’