TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE 

 CHAPTER II 



HOW TO MAKE AVENUES AND WALKES 



ALL walkes should front the gates or entries, 

 whether they lead to a house, garden, gate, door, 

 park, wood, or high- way. When you have deter- 

 mined on the end of your walk, as the door of the 

 house in the middle of the house-front, set off a 

 perpendicular to find the central line, as aforesaid, 

 and for your more exact performance, prepare the 

 following instrument, viz., take two straight rules 

 of three or four foot long ; joyn them crosswayes 

 one another, so that the four angles where they 

 cut maybe exact squares ; then at each side of these 

 joyn a straight piece of wood, standing up about 

 four or five inches ; and in the exact middle of each 

 of these pieces, make a slit or hole quite thro', and 

 in these put a piece of small silk threed ; place the 

 cross on the top of the three-footed staff, with a 

 plummet, whereby you may plant it horizontally 

 upon occasion : on this likeways place your pro- 

 tractor, with the box and needle, when you intend 

 to survey ground. 



As to the avenue, set one side of your cross parallel 

 to the given line (the house-wall) ; this you may do 

 with great ease, by taking one end thereof within 



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