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the park road, and while the latter should lead 

 to the finest spots in the domain, it should also 

 quite as often open out views (over the hidden 

 fence) outside of the park as well as inside. This 

 can be managed, as was described in Chapter III 

 (" Enclosure "), by a ha-ha or some other de- 

 vice. Care must be taken also, by the appropri- 

 ate placing and disposition of the plantations, to 

 make the roads, as one goes in and out, present 

 different views. This obviously doubles their in- 

 terest and can be achieved by the disposition of 

 the bordering plantations, which, so to speak, 

 should compel the visitor to see one part of the 

 landscape on arrival and another on departure. 

 At any specially fine point it is well to lead the 

 road for some time in full view of it, to allow 

 one to enjoy it more completely and not to let 

 it be visible merely to a hasty glance whereby 

 its beauties can be easily overlooked. 



I hold it to be unnecessary to make the roads 

 in a park as broad as in a highway, only five or 

 six feet wide for footpaths and ten to fourteen 

 feet for drives. For public gardens another scale 

 of widths may be advisable. 



The construction of drives and footpaths in a 

 park is very much the same, the whole, difference 

 lying in the thickness of the stone foundation. I 

 have myself taken the following course with the 

 best and most durable results : — 



The bed for both path and drive must first be 

 dug out two, one, or only half a foot deep re- 

 spectively, and where there are watercourses, or 



