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we quote, not as applying in all cases, but to show what are 

 generally thought the principal requisites of this road in the 

 modern style. 



First. It ought to be a road to the house, and to that prin- 

 cipally. 



Second!]/. If it be not naturally the nearest road possible, 

 it ought artificially to be made to appear so. 



Thirdly. The artificial obstacles which make this road 

 the nearest, ought to appear natural. 



Fourthly. Where an approach quits the high road, it ought 

 not to break from it at right angles, or in such a manner as 

 to rob the entrance of importance, but rather at some bend of 

 the public road, from which a lodge or gate may be more 

 conspicuous ; and where the high road may appear to 

 branch from the approach, rather than the approach from the 

 high road. 



Fifthly. After the approach enters the park, it should avoid 

 skirting along its boundary, which betrays the want of extent 

 or unity of property. 



Sixthly. The house, unless very large and magnificent, 

 should not be seen at so great a distance as to make it ap- 

 pear much less than it really is. 



Seventhly. The first view of the house should be from the 

 most pleasing point of sight. 



Eighthly. As soon as the house is visible from the ap- 

 proach, there should be no temptation to quit it, (which will 

 ever be the case if the road be at all circuitous,) unless suffi- 

 cient obstacles, such as water or inaccessible ground appear 

 to justify its course.* 



Although there are many situations where these rules must 

 be greatly modified in practice, yet the improver will do well 



* Repton's Enquiry into the changes of taste in Landscape Gardening, p. 109. 



