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take the most direct and nearest course from the usual point 

 of entrance to the house. But if a httle deviation from such 

 a course, even to the extent of going beyond the house and 

 returning to it, be ever justifiable it is when the ascent to the 

 front door is so steep as only to be comfortably reached by a 

 circuitous route. 



No entrance should start at an oblique line from the out- 

 side road, unless it be at the corner of a place, or from 

 decided bend in the road, as in fig. 33; and then the hne of the 



Fig. 34. Turn-in at Right Angles. 



drive should decidedly turn away from the line of road. 

 Generally a drive requires to commence at right angles from 

 another road (fig. 34), even though it should have to take a 

 sharp curve in another direction almost immediately after- 

 wards. In the great majority of cases, the wing walls or 

 other fences on either side of an entrance should present a 

 convex form to the high road, as this is the natural form of 

 approach, and affords less opportunity for the accumulation 

 of weeds or nuisances. But if a dignified architectural char- 

 acter be sought, and the entrance is intended to be bold and 

 imposing, walls of a reversed or concave figure will perhaps 

 be preferable, and a light post and chain fence, in a convex 



