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Recollections of a Gardening Tour. 



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end or foot of the board being stuck into 

 the ground. The inclination, whether as- 

 cent or descent, of the surface surveyed is 

 marked along the line of each degree, and 

 the whole, with the subdivisions, is given in 

 a table pasted on the board, and sold along 

 with it. The mode of using this instrument 

 is as follows. Set the instrument as upright 

 and steady as possible, by striking its foot 

 fast in the ground, with its head longitu- 

 dinally in the direction in which you intend 

 taking the inclination. Let a person mark 

 the height of the instrument upon a staff, 

 and take his station within reach of the eye, 

 where you wish to know the difference of 

 level ; and exhibit the mark on the staff to 

 the person at the instrument. The head 

 of the instrument must then be inclined to 

 the mark, by the eye looking along or 

 through its sight ; and when the wire crosses 

 the mark, observe upon what line the plum- 

 met has settled, and you will find the in- 

 clination marked in degrees and minutes, 

 which are given in feet, from 10 minutes, 

 which is a rise of 1 in 343*8, to 10 de- 

 grees, which is a rise of 1 in 5' 5, the scale 

 being in 10-minute divisions. This instru- 

 ment is a combination of all the instru- 

 ments used for plumbing, levelling, and 

 giving inclinations ; is simple in its construc- 

 tion, easily adjusted, and can be used by 

 any person ; entirely superseding the use 

 of costly instruments and long calculations. 

 Invented by Mr. Archer, Road-Contractor, Auchterarder." 



The Bowling Green at Stirling adjoins a curious old garden, 

 with numerous evergreens cut into curious shapes, the most 

 complete of which is an arm-chair in box. The green for play- 

 ing on is an oval 35 yards by 29, and the house for keeping the 

 balls is 7 ft. square, surrounded by divisions for two balls each, 

 marked 1 to 54. Round the grass plot there is first a sunk path 

 18 in. wide, to receive the balls when they go beyond the grass ; 

 next a rising slope of grass 2 ft. in height, forming an angle of 

 45°, and, lastly, a border of shrubbery 5 ft. wide. 



The most remarkable garden antiquity about Stirling, or 

 indeed in Scotland, is a piece of ground which, at some former 

 period, has been laid out in terraces and slopes, and probably 

 surrounded by a canal. The surface is naturally quite flat, the 



Fig. 74. Eoadmaker's 

 and Drainer's Sector, 



