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the walks should be concealed from the windows, except that immediately 

 under the eye ; and that, in walking through the grounds, no path should be 

 seen except the one walked on, and that (except in the case of a straight 

 avenue) only for a moderate distance. These rules (derived from the prin- 

 ciple of variety and intricacy) have been carefully attended to by Mr. Har- 

 rison ; and hence the walk from a to b, in the plan^g-. 13, in p. 438, 439' 

 is concealed by raising the turf on the side next the house higher than on 

 the opposite side ; while that from c to tZ is concealed by the bushes and 

 trees at c, and more especially by a large rhododendron at ee. The walk 

 f g his concealed from the walk i ; partly by a swell in the surface of the 

 turf on the side next i, but chiefly by the bushes which are scattered along 

 its margin. At^, there is a clump which prevents any one on the walk i 

 from seeing the line gf; and any one on the walk gf from seeing the line 

 i. In walking along from /to h, it is clear that the trees and shrubs on the 

 left hand will always prevent the eye from seeing the walk to any great 

 distance. All the other walks through the lawn are concealed in a similar 

 manner ; so that a person walking in the grounds never sees any other walk 

 than that which lies immediately before him ; and, therefore, in looking 

 across the lawn, he never can discover the extent either of what he has 

 seen, or of what he has yet to see. To form a great number of walks of 

 this sort, and lead the spectator over them without showing him more than 

 one walk at a time, but taking care, at the same time, to let him have fre- 

 quent and extensive views across the lawn, and these views always different, 

 constitute the grand secret of making a small place look large. 



The walks are filled to the brim with gravel, kept firmly rolled, and their 

 grass margins are dipt, but never cut ; because the gravel, being almost 

 as high as the turf, the latter can never sink down, and swell out over the 

 former. This it invariably does when the turf is a few inches' higher than 

 the gravel ; and, hence, paring off the part of the turf which had projected 

 was originally, no doubt, adopted only as a remedy for the evil, though it is 

 now erroneously practised by gardeners as an evidence of care and good 

 keeping. As much of the beauty of the walk depends upon the beauty of 

 its boundary, the feeling that this boundary is likely to be disturbed every 

 time the walk is cleaned, or the adjoining turf mown, is extremely disa- 

 greeable. The freshiy pared turf becomes a spot or a scar in the scene, 

 withdrawing the attention from the walk itself, and from the adjoining 

 grounds, to a point, or rather a line, which is in itself of little consequencej 



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