154 Of Terrace-Walks. 



nor any Elevation, but what Nature has re- 

 folvedly thrown into the Way ^ and, in Truth, 

 it looks very mean, to come out of a Building 

 upon the grand Flat of a Lawn or Parterre ^ 

 and is a very great Difadvantage to the Gardens 

 at J?^w/f^/i-(7^z^rf,if it could have been avoided. 



ObfervatiGn on Plate the 26th. 



Figure the ifl: is the natural Fall of a Hill. 



Figure the 2d (hews the Defcent from the 

 Bafement^ and it alfo dcmonftrates how eafi- 

 ly Gentlemen may, with a little Care at firft, 

 give their Buildings an handfome Elevation. 



Fig. 3 is the Profile at the End of the Par- 

 terre ^ and Fig. 4 and 5 are the Boundaries of 

 a Garden by a Terrace- Walk and Graff, and 

 by a Terrace-Walk and Water. Fig. 6 is the 

 Plan of the great Terrace, with Groves of 

 Elms at each End. 



To purfue the Thread of our Diredions. 



When you firft begin to build, and make 

 Gardens^ the Gardener and Builder ought to 

 go Hand in Hand, and to confult together 5 

 becaufe the Gardener has often Occafion, in 

 the Courfe of his Works, to make Ufe of all 

 the wafte Stuff that the Mafon or Brick-layer 

 digs out of the Foundation of the Houfe 5 

 and *tis a very great Fault, and likewife an 

 Expence, when Perfons (as 'tis the com- 

 mon Method) firft, dig the Earth out of the 

 Foundations, and throw it out in promifcuous 

 Heaps, and after that have it to remove again, 



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