17^ Of Terrace-Walks. 



Angles 5 or, if it will fuit with the Nature of 

 the Hill the better, you may deviate from the 

 great Exaditude of a right Angle, and may 

 vary 6, 8, or lo Degroes, without any Body's 

 perceiving it. The chief Care fhould be in the 

 firft fixing of the Edifice, or any other mate- 

 rial Line above the Hill, fince thefe lower 

 Slopes and Terraces ought by all Means to 

 run parallel thereto, in Refped to Line as 

 well as Level. And this is a great Fault, that 

 is eafily difcernible in the Slopes of a noble 

 Situation in the North Part of fizg/^w^, where 

 the Slopes run neither parallel to the Line, 

 nor are they parallel as to the Level of the 

 Plinth, or, indeed, any of the Building 5 

 which makes them look twifted, awry, and 

 not fo agreeable as they would otherwife be. 



To finilh what we have begun, \«hether we 

 fix our Slopes at right Angles, or whether v/e 

 deviate either on the right or left, fix, eight, 

 or ten Degrees from the Rules already laid 

 down, of carrying a dead Level a-crofs the 

 Head of a Garden, Terrace- Walks, &c, fix 

 in Stakes at all the Angles of the Baftions ^ 

 and being level, according to former Diredi- 

 ons, there feems to remain nothing to do, but 

 to proceed to working thefe Slopes, the Me- 

 thod of v/hich will appear in the next feveral 

 Figures. 



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