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 them back again, gently over the lafl Length 

 that is Raked, whereby the Walk Hes much 

 the firmer , and thofe coarfeft Stones do not 

 add a little thereto. 



In the firft Volume is hinted a Remark 

 cf Walks being made too round , and this 

 is committed in very many Places to fuch a 

 degree of Folly, that you can't u^alk with 

 that Eafe and Pleafure one ought to do, 

 befides the Roundnefs takes off a confiderable 

 deal from the feeming Width of the Walk. 

 An Inch Crown in five Foot, is what we al- 

 low^ for our Gravel Walk ,• fo that if the' 

 Walk be twenty Foot wide, 'tis higher in the- 

 Middle, than on each Side by four Inches, if- 

 twenty five, five Inches 3 if thirty Foot, fix 

 Inches, and fo on. 



After the Walk is laid carefully, or indeed 

 after every Length or Part of it, which If, 

 commonly, about fifteen each, you are care- 

 fully to rowl it long-v/ays, and crofs-ways, 

 the Perfbn that does it wearing flat heel'd 

 Shoes 5 for when little Holes are once made, 

 ib a new Walk , Ws not eafy to rowl them 

 up again. But, above aJJ, three or four 

 Water Rowlings are very Eflential, to the 

 laying Firm of a Gravel Walk : By Water 

 Ptowling, we mean, when it Rains fo very 

 faft, that the Walks fwim wirh Water, and, 

 this makes the Gravel bind 5 and, as foon 

 »s dry Weather comes, they bind as hard as 

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