Construction of Roads and Walks 



wide should have no more than the proportion just mentioned, 

 which would be a rise of one and three-quarter inches from the 

 sides to the middle. 



At each of the grade-stakes, stout witness-stakes should be 

 set, close against each grade-stake, and projecting about two 

 feet higher, so that in the event of the grade-stakes being covered 



Formal Gardening. Walks Converging to Fountain. Background Heavily Wooded. 



over with dirt, they may always be located by the witness-stakes, 

 and thus the work will not be delayed through a surveyor having 

 to be found to locate the lines or the grades. 



For a driveway, the border grade-stakes should be set eight 

 inches above the proposed finished gravel surface, thereby giving 

 room for five inches of crushed rock and one inch of fine finishing 

 rock, and thus leaving the border of soil about two inches above 

 the finished rolled surface of the roadway. 



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