of Terr ACE- \V A l ks/ i6i 



that are indifcreet enough to make but one 

 Foot ^nd an half, nay, fome not above one 

 Foot, horizontal to the fame Perpendicular, 

 it muft be a very great Faulty for if the Slope 

 be deep, there is no ftanding to mow upon ;t -^ 

 neither if the Ground is tolerably good, will 

 the Grafs profper well, much lefs if it be 

 hot, burning, gravelly Land 5 but for rolling, 

 there is not Room for fuppofing any fuch 

 Thing, which is what makes our Slopes the 

 fineft of any Ordering or Drefiing we can be- 

 ftow upon them, next to mowing. 



And f muft digrefs to obfervc;, amongft 

 thofe that have either by Pradice or Writing 

 inculcated this Error, in that Book of Mn 

 James\^ in which, in his Diredions for cut- 

 ring of Terrace- Walks out of all Hills, he 

 has, in feveral Slopes, not allow'd above one 

 Foot horizontal to one Foot perpendicular i^ 

 which muft be very ill Advice, and I could 

 not but caution the World againft it. 



But to re-aflume our Pradice in the flaking 

 out and levelling this Profile Line^ fixing the 

 Level at D, turn it long- ways of this Line, 

 which willcrop the Head of the Parterre 5 

 and fixing Stakes in at L, you have the Bot- 

 tom of your Side-Terraces, from which, after 

 you have meafur'd out eight Foot nine Inches, 

 the horizontal Line of the Slope, you may 

 raife the Height three Foot fix Inches, vvhjch 

 being done on each Side, you may foon leVel 

 the Tops of your Terrace- Walk, as alfo the 

 Bottom-Lines of your Parterre. 



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