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Fig. 124. is another de- 

 sign fur a rif^tic seat of ihc 

 same general character, hut 

 on a smaller scale, and more 

 elaborately finished. The 

 lower part of the bonnet 

 roof, instead of being of 

 thatch, is of strips of wood 

 with the bark on, closely 

 joined, so as to exclude 

 rain. The seat is also more 

 elaborately finished. 



312. Doric Temple. — 

 Fromr, in/^r. 119., p. 207., 

 the walk proceeds along an 

 uniform surface to s ; where 

 there may be constructed 

 in stone, or brick covered 



with cement, a Doric temple, or any other building that the proprietor 

 may think desii-able. We have mentioned a Doric temple, because that 

 order requires less ornament than any other, and because it admits of the 

 interior being fitted up as a good room. This room might be a billinrd-room, 

 or a place for occasionally drinking tea or dining in; or for a children's party, 

 or a dance ; or for stationing a band of music in, on extraordinary occasions ; 

 or it might be a place for statues, minerals, models, or other objects in which 

 the proprietor was curious. Instead of one large room, there might be two 

 open porticoes, back to back, with a small room between them communicating 

 with both ; in which case, the portico of the end next the house would make 

 a good object to be seen from the windows ; while from a seat in it would be 

 obtained an excellent view of the conservatory front of the house ; and the 

 seat in the other portico, at the back, would command the interesting distant 

 prospects indicated mfgs. 111. to 114., p. 202, 203. 



313. The walk is continued from s, '\n fig. 119., p. 207., till it joins that 

 round the kitchen-garden at t, thus completing the tour of the place. It 

 would have been easy to increase the number of walks, and to conceal them 

 from one another by strips of evergreens in some places, and by raised mounds 

 of turf in others ; but we have preferred a comparatively simple style for 

 laying out this place, and have indicated no more walks than what are likely, 

 under common management, to be kept in good order. We have carefully 

 avoided laying down any branch walks from the circumferential walk pqr s t, 

 towards the approach, the house, or the flower-garden; not only because we 

 wished to preserve the breadth of effect of the lawn (which we consider, when 

 combined with the concealment of the boundaries by planting, as the best 

 means of giving dignity and extent to a place), but also because we wished 

 to keep an uninterrupted glade of turf from d to x, by u, v, and w, for those 

 to take exercise in who prefer turf to gravel for walking on ; and also as a 

 place where children may learn to ride. (See the open spaces among the 

 trees in the jtlan fig. 125.) We have shown no walk from y to z, leaving that 

 situation as a fit place for an archer\r-ground, should one be thought 

 desirable. 



314. The width of all the walks in the pleasure-ground we propose to be 



