of Court- Yards. 141 



Stuff that is dug out of Cellars, and the other 

 Foundations of a Houfe, and all other wafle 

 Rubbifh, and Clay, as ufelefs Ground, that 

 would be to cart away 5 and therefore it is re- 

 commended on that Account : And the Reafoa 

 why a Terrace-Walk at the End is urg'd, is 

 the Expence it faves in Iron- Work, which, at 

 beft, is but a Kind of Net- Work, I had aimoft 

 faid, contrived on Purpofe to catch thofe Per- 

 fbns in, who are fo unwife as to run to that 

 great and unneceflary Expence. 



If therefore the Ground (hould rife from the 

 Houfe, inftead of fall, one ought by all means 

 to fink it, and for a Fence to dig a Graft, or 

 Ditch, on the Out- fide, (of which much 

 more will be faid, when we come to the fen- 

 cing in of a Garden) for the effectual Securi- 

 ty of this main Court, and the other Offices^ 

 d^c. But in this whole Matter, vi^. in pla- 

 cing the Terrace-Walk and Bafement of a new* 

 Building, there ought to be a great deal of 

 Care. Come we now to fpeak of the Superfi* 

 cies of this and all fuch Courts. 



And here it muft be obferv'd, that, for the 

 Conveniency of coming in for a Coach and 

 Horfes, 1 have given 70 Foot Diftance from 

 the Edge of the Terrace, at the Bottom of the 

 Court, to the Edge of the Oval • and the other 

 End is not above 16 Foot from the Sreps of 

 the Terrace, at the upper End next the Houfe, 

 mark'd A 5 for 'tis eafy to conceive the Diffi- 

 culty a Coach and Six would meet with at 

 the Entrance, were it any otherwife, 



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