The INTRODUCTION. 
And the only reafon why they are made in this Stair or 
Step-like manner, is firft to fhew their Dexterity of Hand, 
without confidering the ill Effe&; and laftly to imitate thofe 
grand Amphitheatrical Buildings, uted by the Ancients, of which 
they had no more Judgment, than of the excellent Proportions 
of ArchiteGture that was ufed therein, when thofe noble Struc- 
- tures were firft erected. 
In this low mean Manner I find fome Slopes made at the 
Head of his Majesty's Canal and Mount next the Thames 
at Richmond, which Canal is much too narrow for its Length :. 
I alfo find the Plantation of Foreff Trees on each Side thereof, 
not only broken in the middle without a Reafon for fo doing, 
but /47ff and regular in their Situations, without any Regard 
to that beautiful Order, which Nature obferves in all. fuch 
rural Operations. defor bs3 
I obferve the like Error in the Slopes of the Garden of the 
Honourable Mrs. Howarp at Twickenham, being) view’d at 
the River Thames, and the fame at General Biffet’s Amphi- 
theatre (as called by its Architect) in -his Garden at the fame 
Town, as well asin that of the Honourable Fohn Gumley’s at 
Ifeworth, and many other Gardens too tedious to mention. 
When very large Hills of great perpendicular Heights are to be 
cut into Slopes and Terraces, then we may juftly, endeavour to 
imitate thofe grand Structures, (whercon theirGladiators exercis'd) 
by cutting them Concave, Convex, cc. as thofe looking towards 
Fair=Mile: Heath, in the Gardens of his Grace the Duke of 
NewcastiE at his Grand Seat of Claremont ; but in {mall 
Elevations they are poor and trifling, and therefore not to be 
nfeds aac? 
Having duly confider'd thefe erroneous Pradices, and, what 
a great pity it is that Gentlemen fhould be thus led on for 
want of being furnifhed with Defigns that are truly Grand and 
Noble, after Nature's own Manner ; (thought that if 1 communi- 
cated fome few in that Way, I might do no inconfiderable 
Service to my Country, nor Prejudice to any of my Brother 
Gardeners. a 
This. Method of laying out Gardens, after the manner cxhi- 
bited in the following Plates, being entirely New, as well as, 
the moft grand and rural; I have thought it neceflary, not 
only to lay down all the mofufeful Elements of Geometry, 
Si es : ~ neceflary 
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