FRAGMENT III. 



ON 



FENCES 



NEAR 



THE 



HOUSE. 



. 



If there b 



often 



any part of my practice liable to the accusation of 

 advising the same thing at different places, it will be tree 



m all that relates to my partiality for a Terrace as a fence 



t 



the house 



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Twenty years have, at length, by deg 



ble 



plished that line of demarkation betwixt art and 



I have found so much difficulty in establishing, \ 



and decided fence betwixt the mown pleasure-ground and the 



pastured lawn; betwixt the garden and the park; betwixt 



ground allotted to the pleasure of man, and that to ih 



cattle 



So many different modes of producing the 



«' 



le 



9C of 



(feci 



may be suggested, that I shall hope to be useful in describing 



some 



fth 



em 



First, where the ground falls from the house in an inclined 



e a seer 



taincd 



plane, the distance of the fence can only 



actual experiment on the spot, and of course, the steeper the 



descent the nearer or the lower must be the terrace wall. 



Floor Line 





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The eye sees the ground over the fence at A, but if carried to 

 , all view of the ground will be lost. 



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