TREATMENT OF GROUND. — FORMATION OF WALKS. 275 



The sunk fence, fosse, or Jia-ha^ is an English invention, 

 used in separating that portion of the hawn near the house, 

 frqm the part grazed by deer or cattle, and is only a ditch 

 sufficiently wide and deep to render communication difficult 

 on opposite sides. When the ground slopes from the house, 

 such a sunk fence is invisible to a person near the latter, and 

 answers the purpose of a barrier without being in the least 

 obtrusive. 



In a succeeding section we shall refer to terraces with their 

 parapets, which are by far the most elegant barriers for a 

 highly decorated flower garden, or for the purpose of main- 

 taining a proper connection between the house and the 

 grounds, a subject scarcely at all attended to, or the impor- 

 tance of which, even recognised as yet among us. 



