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As he looked out a window of Castle Howard onto the newly pristine surface of the North, or Great, Lake and its adjacent ponds (P1. II), the Honorable Simon Howard exclaimed: "We had one of the greatest views in England and couldn't even see the main lake." (2) He was referring to the tangle of reeds and rampant trees that bad gradually overcome the ponds and destroyed their fragile banks since early in the twentieth century, finally obscuring the view. Fortunately, in 1987, three years after taking over the estate following the death of his father, he began a process of repair and recovery that has restored to this palatial estate the smooth sheet of water to the north ...