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also for raising gooseberries, currants, and stra- 

 berries. On the south side of the house there is the 

 pleasure or flower garden, called the parterre ; at 

 the two sydes thereof, kitchen-gardens, marked 

 with K, then another walk ending in a semicircle, 

 8, leading out to the lawn or deer-park. The vistaes, 

 or walks of view, that run from the four angles 

 of the house, are very pleasant and convenient, 

 and are good shelter, for which cause there are two 

 thickets on the north side, marked T ; on the south 

 side are two such marked A, for nurseries ; and at 

 east and west are two orchards. The whole is en- 

 vironed with two rowes of f orrest trees without 

 the wall. And if the paper were large, I would show 

 you that the park- wall should be parallel to these, 

 that is, every where equi-distant from the house 

 as its centre at least, the whole an octagon near to 

 a regular polygon, consisting of equal sides and 

 angles. The walks with their fences (being run fore- 

 ward from all the four sides and four angles of the 

 house, till they touch at the middle of each side 

 of the park-wall) serve in the park for divisors, 

 which divisors may be hawthorn hedges, and these 

 in the gardens holly ; except the court in the entrie 

 and office-house courts, methinks walls are requi- 



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