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about 3 feet in diameter, with cornices and stone 

 domed roof. The most difficult of all to design 

 satisfactorily is the plain pier and cannon-ball. 

 Besides the main gateway, there were the gate- 



GXTE PIEK5 : CANONS ASHBY : NORTHXNTS 



Fig. ^8. 



ways in garden-walls, leading from the fruit to 

 the flower garden, or from one part of the 

 garden to another, or from the paddock to the 

 garden. Markham says " the false gate (other- 

 wise called the back or field-gate) in that side 

 toward your medow, made for your going in 



