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Having thus done, you are to fall your fi:^ 

 Foot 5 but if your Ground does not require 

 it, five or four Foot will be Fall enough, in 

 refpeft to the Work it felf. The Method how 

 this is done, is fufHciently laid down in- Di- 

 reEtio7is for ujing Garden-Inftruments ^ 6cc. (p. 

 60) After you have thus fix*d the Stake to 

 its true Fall, at the lower End of the Parterre 

 or Lawn, you are to repeat the fame Work 

 again as you did at the upper End, by twin- 

 ing the Level a-crofs the Bottom of the Par- 

 terre^ and having thus finifti'd your Levels at 

 the Bottom, as you did before at the Head 

 thereof, you are fufficiently prepared with 

 your main Stakes ; and thefe ought to be at 

 leaft two Foot long, and drove down with 

 Beetles and Sledges, with all the Force ima- 

 ginable '-, for that thefe Stakes, once mov'd, 

 will always put your Work into Diforder, 

 and make it unlevel 5 and there are fo many 

 Accidents that do, that you can't be too care- 

 ful in the avoiding it. 



I think I have gone thro' the moft material 

 Parts both in the Defign and Execution of the 

 rough-levelling Terrace-Walks under the main 

 Body of the Houfe, in the Garden Side, as 

 alfo the Side-Terraces of a Lawn or Parterre ^ 

 and it would be needlefs for me to repeat the 

 Method of working, drefling, and carpetting 

 them, in as much as it will fall in more pro- 

 perly in other Places. 



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