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 tetter than burying the Building too deep. 

 « When your Terraces are every where 

 'ttiade good, and brought up within about 

 2 or 5 Inches of the PHnth by the Cart or 

 'Wheel-barrow (which fliould run forwards 

 ^nd backwards thereon, as much as the Na- 

 ture of their Rake requires) let it remain a 

 while to fink, if two or three Months, the 

 better ; for Terraces that are raised high are 

 apt to fink in Holes, and thep the Owner is 

 apt to fret. In this Cafe, then he ought not 

 to be too hafty, but befides his ramming it 

 Well, and carting, wheeling, ^nd trampling 

 it over, he fhould fee it well fettled; while, 

 on the other hand, the lower Quarters of a 

 Parterre, or an open Lawn, or Bowling-green, 

 that is not fo rais'd, may be immediately 

 turfF'd fo, as to ufe the Turff that otherwife 

 would be fpoiled, or lye in the Way. 

 ^:' I have in one of the preceding Chapters 

 ihown how to take the mean of any Level, 

 and, by meafuring tlie Depth of every Stake- 

 head, to find what Gauge to go, and this is 

 particularly ufeful in all thefe Cafes, where 

 (if fjppofe it be the Lawn) you have 200 

 Stakes all of different Heights above the na- 

 tural Ground, by adding thofe federal Heights 

 together, and dividing them by the 2co 

 (more or lefs) the Number of Stakes it gives, 

 that mean Depth you are to go, and will 

 caufe thelflue to be, that you will very near 



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