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New Mode of forming curved Lines, 



Required to fill up, on an enlarged scale, the outline fig, 70. 

 for a shrubbery flower-garden, where there is a stream of water 

 available, to be brought in at the west end. It is also required, 

 that the entrances shall be from the walk which is contiguous to 

 the outline, and marked with a dotted line. 



Shortgrove, Essex, 1834<. 



Art. IV. On a neto Mode of forming curved Lines, in laying out 

 Grounds. By Mr. Alexander Forsyth. 



The only correct *tX)ay in iiohich a Spiral Line, or Volute, can be 



made, {fg, 71.) 



Make a circle around 

 the centre of your intended 

 volute, as much in circum- 

 ference as you intend the 

 breadth of your circuitous 

 border to be : stick this 

 circumferential line full of 

 pegs, and tie one end of a 

 garden line to one of them. 

 Then, taking the other in 

 your hand, go out to the 

 point where you intend 

 the volute to begin ; and as 

 you circumambulate, hold- 

 ing the line strained tight, 



you will delineate on the ground the figure required ; viz. fig. 71. 



