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C H A P. V. 



Of T E R R x\ C E - Wa L K S. ^ 



H E Terrace feems to have been us'd 

 a confiderable Time Gnce, the Latins 

 terming it Agger^ or Aggefim^ as 

 may befuppos*d from ad and gero^\ 

 to colled or gather together of an Heap ^ Vi- 

 tmvms (that celebrated Rowan Archited)' 

 and SuetonhiSy call it by the Name of Ptd- 

 vlniis^ a Garden-Bed , or rais'd Walk of Gra* 

 vel ^ Macrobim^ by Solarium^ a Sunny Bank, 

 or Walk : But the neareft oi our Derivations 

 in Englijh, is from the French, Terrace^ or 

 Terras 5 and they from the Italiaiis, (horn 

 whom they, and almoft all Europe, derive 

 their Terms of Art relating to Building, Gar- 

 dening, &c.) Terraza, Terraz,are, fignifying 

 with them the removing and banking up of 

 Earth, from one Place into another. 



But be the Derivation as it will, it is very 

 well known in thefe European Countries, and 

 particularly with us, to be a fmall Bank of 

 Earth, laid out and trimm'd according to Line 

 and Level, being neceffary for the proper E- 



levation 



