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to this is recommended by William Lawson. 

 The terrace next the house was either gravelled 

 or paved. A splendid instance of a paved 

 terrace, the full width of the garden, existed 

 at Longleat, and several others are shown in 

 Kip. 



Besides the terrace next the house, a terrace 

 was often formed parallel to it at the opposite 



Fig. 21. — Hales Place. 



end of the garden. In the earlier gardens of the 

 seventeenth century this was almost invariably 

 done. In the gardens described and figured by 

 Markham and Lawson, the " mount," or raised 

 walk at the end of the garden, with garden- 

 houses at either end, was an indispensable 

 feature. There is a good example of this in 



^ Hales Place, or Place House, Tenterden, was a seat of the Hales 

 family. It is now a farm-house, and is usually called Place House. 



