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earth against the carriage sweep, the formation of a walled 

 entrance court will be both prudent and ornamental. If the 

 walls be but low (three or four feet high) the area of such a 

 court need not be much larger than an ordinary carriage 

 sweep. But if the court be surrounded with walls ten or 

 twelve feet high, it will require to be much larger, and be 

 decorated with shrubs and climbers. In either case the wall 

 should be architecturally treated and made a main element in 

 the design. 



Fig. 36. Carriage Turn with Embellishment. 



In obtaining access to the servants' apartments of a house, 

 a few leading rules will have to be observed. If at all prac- 

 ticable it should be made quite a separate thing, from the 

 outside, and will be more useful if it will admit carts to convey 

 supplies to the house and rubbish from it. But where this 

 cannot be done, the access may be compassed by a branch 

 road or walk from the main approach, keeping this as far as 

 possible from the entrance front of the house, and rendering 

 it smaller or more confined and less direct than the main 

 approach, that the two may never be mistaken for each 

 other. 



