54 Of rural and extenfive Gardening. 

 and tea Foot for the Horizontal of the next 

 Slope, and the three hundred and thirty 

 five t oot to the Center of the Sweep, at the 

 upper-end of the Parterre of Water, or Bowl- 

 ing-green of Grafs, be it which it v;ill, which 

 Sweep being there from mark'd out, as eighty 

 Foot, and the \Va!k thirty Foot, at the end 

 of it, you are to meafure the Extent of the 

 middle Line, be it five hundred and thirty 

 Foot as upon the Draft, or more, or lefs. 



This being done, you are to return where 

 you began, and then confider, fomeihing con* 

 cerning your Levels or Profile Line?, Concern- 

 ing this, I have been already very particular, 

 and (ball here need only direft, that the firft 

 hundred Foot ought to be near a dead Level, 

 as we call it, becaufe, if there are Peers at each 

 end, as there generally are on all great Ter- 

 races, the Plinth will otherwife have but a 

 very ill Afpeft. 



The ten Foot Slope we here allow three 

 Foot and a half Perpendicular to, if the 

 Ground allow it, or otherwife, but by no 

 means lefs than two Foot and a half, in which 

 laft cafe you muft contract the Horizontal 

 Line of your Slope to feven Foot, or there- 

 abouts, otherwife it will be too flat* 



To purfue our Profile, and allowing an 

 Inch in ten Foot fall, it comes thirty one 

 inches and a half fid 1 in the Parterre, and that 

 you will fix by making a dead Level at the 

 upper end at A, (as has been already taught) 



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