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delighted and pleased becomes tame and tiresome. There is no good reason, 

 however, why the carriage-road may not be carried through some of the most 

 picturesque scenery, and rendered as interesting and commanding as is con- 

 sistent with convenience. A distant glimpse of the house may sometimes be 

 permitted with excellent effect, satisfactory to the eye for its beauty, and to 

 the more utilitarian principles, as indicating a termination to the journey. 



235. Nothing contributes more to the importance of a carriage-road at 

 starting than its lino of divergence from the public road. The farther the 



angle of separation can be removed from a right 

 angle, as at A, the more graceful will the en- 

 trance be ; thus, at A, it will be seen the carriage- 

 w road h cuts into the public road a a at right 

 '*"-•. . — angles. Any inclosure following the lines in the 

 diagram would be stiff and formal ; but by throw- 

 ing an ornamental fence where the dotted lines occur, and the space between 

 the road and railing laid down in grass, the offensive impression of stiffness is 

 removed. In other cases the carriage-road should be made to diverge from 

 the public road a h, leaving the angle 3 cut off by dotted lines from c, fig. B. 



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The same remark applies in fig. D, although in that instance the pubhc road 

 a a diverges with a curve as well as the carriage-road : still, it would be 

 improved by a curve dating from the dotted lines d ; while in fig. E, which 



has a double approach, the longer the curve h h, and the larger the space E, 

 inclosed with dotted lines, the more graceful is the sweep & 6 ; in fact, in all 

 these instances, the nearer it can approach a pai-allel line with the main 

 road, as at a h, the better. But whatever the angle of divergence chosen, a 

 liberal space should be leftoutside the entrance-gate : the form of the space is 

 of less consequence than its size. At E a piece of grass is shovi-n, j)rotected from 

 the public road by upright stones, or wooden posts, inserted all round, and con- 

 nected together by a massive iron chain. The forms C D would also look nobler, 

 and be much more easily entered from both directions, if the spaces beyond 

 the dotted lines were thrown into the public road ; and unless this is done, it 

 is exceedingly difficult to tui-n the csrner at 3 m coming from 1 to 2, in fig. B. 

 Where a domain is sufficiently ample to requjre two or three lodges for its 

 accommodation, this is of less consequence. In cases where the form is a 



