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B UIL DING SITES 



is below the level of the road, it is not always more desirable. If 

 a dwelling-site has its main walks to the doors on a level with the 

 street, and a part of the ground lower, but relatively higher than 



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Fig. 6. 



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other grounds farther back, the location may be capable of more 

 beautiful eifects than a plain swell. A bird's-eye view over small 

 grounds is so rare that any approach to it is a pleasing novelty, 

 and the opportunities to obtain such effects should be made the 

 most of. The most lovely views the world can boast are narrow 

 valleys seen from adjacent hills. Figs. 7 and 8 are sections show- 

 ing pleasing forms of surfaces below the level of the street, but 

 overlooking lower ground farther back. 



A building site may even be much lower than its street en- 

 trance, as in Figs. 7 and 8, where the level of the road is shown 



Fig. 7. 



at a, on the condition already named, that the ground in its 

 rear be still lower relatively. A cottage in the spirit of the Swiss 

 style, in such a locality, would be quite appropriate, or, indeed, 

 any style in which the roof lines are both prominent and grace- 



