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rifing Hills on each fide, up to a large Cen- 

 ter, which, if the View be there ftopp*d, may 

 be placed, either a large Statue, Banquet- 

 ing Houfe, Obelisk, or what the Defigner 

 pleafess And, if there be Plenty ofWater^ 

 a Cafcade rowling down, and facing thePer- 

 fon that looks thereon, at that great Di- 

 ftance. If it be thought that forty Foot is 

 too little, for fo long a View, I fnall not 

 contefl: it, but only obferve, that the nar- 

 rower a Walk is, the farther of appear, any 

 ob)e(9:, that is placM at the End of its and 

 this I take to be of no fmall account, cfpecial- 

 ly, if the Walk be not too narrow a Walk, 

 of fixty Foot wide, as the middle Walk is, 

 will very well admit of 5 coo Foot long (eipe- 

 cially when there is a Valley, that opens wi- 

 der at the End of it) and for thofe crofs 

 W^alks 4000 Foot long, to forty Foot wide, 

 is not an ill Proportion, 



To come nearer the Center of our Work, 

 it is to be obferv'd, that the Termination, of 

 what may be properly call'd, the enclofed 

 Garden Ends wuth this great Bafin, at the 

 fides whereof there are little Gates, that 

 open by the fides of the Fountain ,• which 

 Gates do by no means obftrud the general 

 View, and are of themfelves fufEcient to 

 keep all Cattle from entring into this Part 

 of the Garden, that ought to be kept from 

 their tramplings ; and this is the largcft De- 

 iign^ that the greaceft of eur Country Seats 

 ^"'■^ feem 



