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least as either of the main fronts of the house is concerned, the 

 ground, to the full breadth of those fronts, and of any addi- 

 tional terrace bank by which they may be supported, must 

 be brought into a perfectly level platform. There should 



Fig. 30. Terrace Treatment of Rising Gruund 



be no cross slopes, — • no oblique inclination of the ground in 

 a direction parallel with the front of the house. The level 

 basement Une of the house would in no way accord with a 

 diagonal or sloping Une in the ground, the latter being sadly 

 out of harmony with the squareness of the style. Indeed 

 the side of a house out of the perpendicular would be scarcely 

 less incorrect. 



From these observations it will appear that where ground 

 slopes across a lawn and parallel with the front of the house 

 it should, in consistency with the formal style, be reduced 

 to a dead level as far as the front of the house or its terrace 

 extends. In fig. 31 the dotted Hne indicates the supposed 

 natural level of the ground, and the shaded Hne the level to 

 which it should be reduced. The change of level from this 

 point, in a line taken precisely at a right angle from the 

 house across the garden, should be effected, whether ground 

 rises or descends, by a terrace bank of grass the upper edge 

 of which is kept quite square. Or the same thing may be 

 accomplished by a low wall, carrying the walks either up or 



