THE SCOTS GARD'NER 



it would have been five foot, or ten steps lower than 

 the one side walke, and as much higher than the 

 other, and so worse and more inconvenient than 

 before, both as a walke, and anent correspondency 

 with the rest of the ground within : therefore I am 

 for levelling any ground in a sloping manner, that 

 it may turn a little to the sun, if possible, for drain- 

 ing water, and that it may correspond with its ad- 

 juncts, and above all, in order to prevent the more 

 costly way ; for 'tis certainly a principal observa- 

 tion in levelling, not only to cause the ground of 

 itself serve itself, but also to level it as it lyes most 

 conveniently, which is the cheap and easie way of 

 levelling. When you have a row of stakes set in a 

 straight line, and at about twenty foot distance, as 

 in the edge of a bordure or middle of a walke, the 

 way of levelling, rather horizontally or sloping, is 

 to mark and put a nail in the two stakes which are 

 at the extreams or ends thereof, and to view be- 

 twixt : cause marke all the rest which are betwixt 

 in a level line therewith. This is the easiest, the ex- 

 actest and quickest way : and, by the same methode, 

 you may go round any plot, and consequently cross 

 it every way according to this direction. 



If what you would have horizontal, place the long 

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