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other position. In fig. 20 is sliown one of the walks at 

 Woodside. The site Avhich was selected for the house Avas 

 a steep hillside from which several feet of soil had to be 

 graded off to obtain a level spot for the building. In do- 

 ing this it would have been just as easy to have taken off 

 enough at B so as to have allowed the walk to have been on 

 a straiirht line from the <rate to the door at the side. But 



Fig. ^0. 



at B, and to the left, there is a high bank covered with 

 trees and rocks, and this bank was allowed to project at 

 that point three or four feet farther than at a point near 

 the house. This bank runs along past the side of the 

 house, as shown. When the grading was finished, the 



