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open, airy Drying-Place, quia exaruerit^ as 

 the Didionary exprefTeth it, and bounded 

 with a Wall, Hedge, or Pale, or forae Cir- 

 cumfcription, as Courts of Law and Juftice 

 are^ but when particularly apply'd to the Mat- 

 ter in Hand, fignities thofe little Divifions 

 that lye contiguous to a (gentleman s Houfe, 

 and other his Offices of Convenience. 



But to the Work itfelf, viz,. To the Pro- 

 portion and Defign, and to the Manner of 

 making of them. 



Where-ever, then, the Defign admits of, 

 or requires but one fingle Court, the Length 

 thereof need be no more than once and an half 

 or twice the Width betv/een Terrace and Ter- 

 race. But in very great Edifices and Defigns, 

 a double Court feems to add a great Magnifi- 

 cence thereto; *tis there that Grandeur is ab- 

 folutely neceffary, when in Buildings of a 

 lefs x\ccount, a fingle Court, according to our 

 allotted Proportion, will very well anfwer 

 the Purpofe. 



I have, in Plates the ift and 2d, given fuch 

 plain Diredions, as have occurr'd in the Dif- 

 pofition and making of Court- Yards, whether 

 pubiick or private, of their Ufe, and the Beau- 

 ty and Convenience they add to any Edifice, 

 In the firft Place it is required, that Court- 



'" Yards Ihould have a depending Level, at leaft 

 an Inch in ten Foot, for the quick carrying off 



, of Water, and that it may lye dry, as much 

 as poflible. To that End, there will be found 

 in Plate the 25th a circular Line, to which 



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