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meadow would have to follow the same direction so 

 as not to destroy the harmony, or, if I may say so, 

 the balance of the picture ; for there is a certain kind 

 of undefined, hidden symmetry in which there is no 

 contradiction whatever, but which must be evident 

 in every expanded arrangement of this kind, in 

 order to produce a satisfactory effect. As soon as 

 I changed the line of the path in agreement with 

 this principle, — see x, — the matter was arranged satis- 

 factorily. It may take a practised eye to understand 

 this point on the plan, but the advantages gained 

 by the change may be perceived by any one on the 

 ground. 



"Drives should be laid out so that chief points 

 of interest and the most noteworthy objects in the 

 entire park may be visited one after another without 

 passing the same object twice, at least not in the 

 same direction, on the round trip. This problem 

 is frequently a peculiar one to solve; I may say I 

 have given a good example in my park and it has 

 cost me almost as much labour as the building of 

 labyrinths may have cost our ancestors. The foot- 

 paths also must run into one another with this end 

 in view, affording many separate paths, apparently 

 undesigned, which should be connected together so 

 as to leave a wide latitude of choice. Where one 

 or several of the main roads or paths through the 

 park are intended to serve as an approach (as it is 

 called in English) to the castle or dwelling house, 

 it should be concealed for a time to make the road 



