THE SCOTS GARDENER 



site there. There should also be an ascent to the 

 house (if possible) ; as, at the first court-gate, two 

 steps : at the second, four steps, &c. But leaving it 

 to every man to apply as his ground and ability will 

 best admit, I come to speake of regularity, where 

 confined. But as work or to make regularity among 

 conferments requires ingenuity, so is tethered diffi- 

 culty in teaching the same because of the great 

 variety of places, which it is hardly possible to cor- 

 rect by precepts. Therefore, to what I have said 

 above of the centre and central line, I shall only add 

 one single instance. 



In a confined situation of ground, I add what I 

 can, but diminish nothing : I take a survey of the 

 works, and when I find several regular and irregu- 

 lar things done on one side of the house, and no- 

 thing correspondent on the other, I mark out the 

 very same on the opposite side: and this I continue 

 to do, till two irregularities produce one uniformity. 

 Or, should an avenue lead obliquely to the house, 

 on account of a precipice on the west, I immediately 

 view the ground from the top of the house, and find 

 that, by turning my face towards the east, I shall 

 have stately avenues, with gardens on each hand, 

 at pleasure. 



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