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stance, when the observer travels along a road and looks at its side 

 slopes. Here the designer will endeavor if possible to make the eleva- 

 tions or depressions which he must bring about in the surface of the 

 ground seem as though they had come about naturally. In some cases 

 this is possible, and the hollow through which a road runs, or the little 



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level on which a shelter stands, may look as though it had been there 

 for ages and had merely been taken advantage of by the designer. On 

 the other hand, there are many cases where it is impossible to conceal 

 from any intelligent observer that the forms of the ground at which 

 he is looking were made by man, for man's purposes. But even here a 

 great deal can be done to make these forms as little incongruous as 

 need be with the natural forms which make the rest of the composition. 

 [See Drawing XIX, above.) In constructing his new slopes the 



