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and half an Inch, or two Foot nine Inches, h 

 fufScient ^ but when it is 30 or 40 Foot, and 

 the Garden proportionably large, 3 Foot, or 

 3 Foot and an half, is abfolutely required. 



As to the general Proportion of great Ter- 

 races, I refer you to the Scheme and Scale of 

 Plate 27^ Fig. 6, by which it appears, that the 

 Terrace is near 100 Foot wide. The Reafon 

 why I make it thus large, is, becaufe 1 have 

 dften (I may fay always) thought that the 

 Terrace-Walks under Buildings, in almoft all 

 the Defigns 1 have feen in England^ are too 

 narrow, fo narrow, that one can't, without a 

 great deal of Inconvenience and Pain, view 

 the Buildings as one walks along. And what 

 gave me the firft Impreflion of this Kind, was 

 that truly magnificent and noble Terrace- 

 Walk belonging to fhe Right Honourable the 

 Earl of h'ottnigbam^ at Burleigh on the Hill 

 in the County ol Rutland'^ any Perfon that 

 has once feen this, can't but be mightiiy 

 (hock'd to fee little creeping narrow I'erraces 

 under great Buildings. For my own Parr, I 

 muft confefs, that that Defign creates an Idea 

 in my fvlind greater than I am well able to 

 exprefs^ and tho' every Perfon that builds,has 

 not fo noble an Elevation and View, yet Per- 

 fons in a more level Country, may help them- 

 felves very much, and therefore there is the 

 more Occafion for fuch an Elevation. And this 

 refleds (till more upon Mr. James\ Tranflati- 

 on, where there is no fuch Care taken at all, 



nor 



