204 ^/ ^'^^^^^ ^^^ Groves^ &cJ 

 may be feen in that incomparably beauti- 

 ful Park of his Grace the Duke of Ancafier^ 

 at Grimfthorpe in Li7Jcolnpjire^^nd other Places. 

 In fine. Wood plac'd at a Diftance, and upon 

 a Rifing, is, befides its Ufe, one of the no- 

 bleil: and moft pleafing Views in Nature, But 

 for the farther Illuftration of this, I refer to 

 the Chapter concerning Situations, and the 

 Plate of the Diftribution of Parks. 



In the Interim, I can't but obferve a great 

 Fault in many of our Defigns, in bringing 

 our Avenues clofe to the Court-Gate, by 

 which Means we very often lofe the Beauty 

 of a very noble Lawn, while the Walk 

 would at the fame Time anfwer its End at a 

 great Diftance, were it to begin a quarter of 

 a Mile from the Houfe. Befides, as I Ihall 

 hereafter fhew by a Scheme, Wood in this 

 Cafe crowded up too near an Houfe blinds 

 it 5 and I will affirm, as I fhall by and by 

 by Mathematical Demonftration (hew, that a 

 Walk of an hundred Foot wide, if the Wood 

 is not crowded too clofe to the Building, will 

 jBiew it as much or more than one of the full 

 Width of the Building, fuppofing it two hun- 

 dred Foot, where is a large open Lawn before 

 jt^ and this will confiderably fave that De- 

 ftrudion of Wood which is very often on this 

 Account made. 



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