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519 



It is, however, right to state that Mr. Harrison accords with oui 

 general view of the subject, but " defends the walk in question as an 

 exception founded on his objects in making it ; which were, 1st, to have 

 a walk ditferent from any other in the garden; and 2d, a walk shelter- 

 tered from the winter southerly gales, and ornamented by the bloom of 

 the laurustinus at that season. It is, therefore, so slightly curved as 

 merely to avoid a straight line, and permits an e.xtent of length, not 

 found in any other part, to be seen on descending the elevation at the 

 east end, or on emerging from wood at the west end, where, when the 

 improvements connected with it are finished, it will enter a dense plan- 

 tation, the walk going round at the back of the building in that corner. 

 The fence would have been entirely excluded from either near or dis- 

 tant view, and the eye carried so as not to catch a view of the grounds 

 of the tield nearer than one hundred yards or more at the least, if the 

 laurustinuses had not suffered so severely in 1837-38; but these will 

 by next year, and by trees already pknted along the border, and others 

 to be planted irregularly, at intervals, in the field near the fence in a 



FFig. 18. (Jarden Front of Cheshunt Cottage.] 



great measure, Mr. Harrison thinks, obviate the objection made, or 

 least I'issen the force of it, as future appearances will, hn thin;- 

 prove.— VV. H." 



