OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



the neighborhood, that I made a rough 

 draught of it upon the spot. 



This picturesque use of rock material is 

 appreciated and practised in many parts of 



Great Britain. Thus in the neighborhood of 

 the slate quarries of North Wales, near Caer- 

 narvon, the refuse material from the ledges is 

 laid up by the adjoining proprietors in snug 

 fences, that appear at a little distance away, 

 to be crowned with a regularly castellated bat- 

 tlement. This effect is produced simply by 

 alternating cubical and oblong fragments of 

 slate rock upon the summit of the wall. 



In Derbyshire^ again, I have seen a kindred 

 effect wrought by the tasteful disposition of 

 the big boulders which are scattered pretty 

 thickly over some of the high moorlands of 

 that country. In Cumberland and Westmore- 

 land, indications of the same rural adaptive- 

 ness abound 



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