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house, there is a branch road (e) to the stable offices (/), which are connected 

 on the one hand with the poultry-yard (7) and the kitchen-court (h), and, on 

 the other, with the reserve ground to the kitchen-garden (i). This branch 

 road (e) is made narrower than the main approach, in order that it may never 

 lie mistaken for it : it is bent, so that persons either going to the front 

 entrance of the house, or coming from it, may never see along it as far as the 

 gates of the stable-court ; and it is joined to the main approach in such a 

 manner, that it may rather invite a person to enter on it, when returning 

 from the house, than when going to it. The reason of this is, that this branch 

 road will be principally used by the carriages of visiters going to the stable 

 offices, after they have set down their company at the front door of the house ; 

 and by the carriage of the family going from the stables to the house, and 

 back again, after the carriage has been used. For one person, therefore, who 

 comes out of this branch road and turns towards the entrance-lodge, there 

 will be at least ten who come out of it, and turn towards the mansion, agree- 

 ably to the inclination of the road at its junction with the approach. In 

 short, tradesmen's carts, and carts with provision for the horses and ponltrj', 

 with manure and other articles for the garden, and with coal, &c., for the kit- 

 chen-court, will include every kind of carriage that goes along this branch 

 road, from the entrance-gate. 



303. Instead of a broad mass of gravel for carriages fa turn on, imme- 

 diately before the entrance portico, Ave have preferred retaining the road there 

 of its usual width, and carrying it round the large oval of turf {j). This is 

 not only a much safer mode of turning a carriage, but gives an idea of ample 



