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ness of form, but to build so as to avoid a bost of nuisances, wbicb are there 

 unfortunately too common. Nooks and recesses are to be studiously avoided ; 

 and instead of open gates, there sbould be doors, tbe posts flanked by a neatly 

 dressed stone wall of an appropriate height, of the O-gee cbaracter ; with the 

 curve, however, so sbgbt, tbat the gates may not recede from the straight line 

 more than four feet. (Figure 31.) Indeed, I should consider this kind of 



Figure 31. 



entrance very proper for a country villa, provided the gates were open instead 

 of being closed, with or without palisades on each side, and the recesses a little 

 deeper than the accompanying sketch. 



If we compare this design with the concave entrances of earher days (fiy. 

 32), we shall at once see that it is not liable to objection, as these were 



Figure 32. 



from their rectangular forms. But what was much worse, — the latter too 

 often became the depots for every kind of nuisance, besides affording lurking 

 places for vicious and abandoned characters. 



