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hroad for a grafs or gravel walk of proportionable vvidtli ; 

 defigned in gardens as a high, airy walk, to command a 

 better profpeft of the adjacent places around, within and 

 without the garden occafionally, as well as to enjoy the 

 frefh air in fummer more freely. In tiie former ityle of 

 laying out gardens, it was confidered as very ornamental, 

 but is at prcfent much in difufe. 



It may be remarked, that the height of a terrace-walk 

 may be more or lefs, as the fituation admits, as from one foot 

 to one or two yards, or even three or four yards or more 

 in particular fituations ; and where there is plenty of earthy 

 materials, rubbifli, &c. to form it, allowing breadth in pro- 

 portion, from five to ten or twenty feet or more, and ex- 

 tended to any length required. They arc fometimes formed 

 on fome naturally high rifing ground, to fave as much 

 troable as poffible in bringing ftuff from a diftance ; and 

 fometimes raifed wholly of forced materials. But the fitua- 

 tion for a terrace may be varied as the natural fituation of 

 the place may require. 



In refpeft to form, they fhould always be broader at the 

 bafe than the top, and extend lengthways to any diftance 

 required ; having the fides regularly (loped, of more or lefs 

 acchvity, as the width, height, and fituation admit. Some- 

 times both fides are Hoped, and fometimes only one fide, 

 the other perpendicular, and faced with a fubilantial wall, 

 &c. or formed againft the fide of a hill, or fome naturally 

 rifing ground, being finifhed always broad enough at top 

 to admit of a proper walk. In fome naturally elevated 

 fituations, terraces are fometimes formed one above another, 

 in two or more ranges, each having its feparate fide fiopes, 

 and elevated walk ; in all of which the Hopes are to be 

 neatly laid with grafs, and the walk at top occafionally of 

 grafs or gravel. 



The entrances leading to terrace-walks were formerly 

 fometimes formed by an eafy acclivity of a grafs or gravelled 

 flope, and fometimes by a grand flight of ftone fteps. 

 Where a rifing ground of confiderable elevation naturally 

 prefents itfelf in a proper fituation, it is an eligible oppor- 

 tunity for forming a terrace with the leaft expence and 

 trouble, on account of its not requiring the addition of fo 

 much earth and rubbifh, as when raifed entirely on a per- 

 feft level, wholly of made earth. Where there are any 

 excavations of ground intended to form ha-has, pieces of 

 water, &c. the excavated earth may be employed in form- 

 ing terraces, &c. 



In the bufinefs of forming a terrace, the bafe muft be 

 ftakedout wider than the intended width at top for the walk, 

 in order to admit of the afcent of flopes being moderate. And 

 the whole of the made earth and rubbifli muft be well ram- 

 med and rolled down from time to time as it is applied, in 

 order to render the whole equally firm, that it may not fettle 

 irregularly after being finiftied. The flopes may either be 

 laid with turf, or fown with grafs-feeds ; but the firft is 

 much the beft method, where it can be employed. See 

 Grass Ground. 



Terraces are now but little attended to, and, of courfe, 

 but feldom employed in modern ornamental gardening, as 

 they are moftly confidered as having a too ftiff and formal 

 appearance, and as not conftituting that fort of neatnefs 

 and tafteful elegance, which is fo much eftecmed and ad- 

 mired at prefent in all forts of works of the garden kind. 



Terrace, Counter, is a terrace raifed over another to 

 join two grounds, or raife a parterre. 



Terrace is alfo applied to the roofs of houfes that are 

 flat, and on which one may walk ; as alfo to balconies that 

 projeft. 



The terrace is properly the covering of a building which 

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is in platform ; as that of the jjcriftyle of the Louvre, or 

 that ot the obfervatoiy, paved with flint and mortar. All 

 the buildings of the Oriental nations arc covered with ter- 

 races, to take the frefli air on, and even to lie on. See Pave- 

 WRNT of Terrace. 



Trriiace, or Terras, ufed for mortar. See Tarrace. 

 TERRACINA, in Geography, a town of the Pppe- 

 dom, in tlic Carnpagna di Roma, fituated in a very fruitful 

 but marfliy country, which makes the air unwholcfonie. 

 This town was anciently the capital of the Volfci, and 

 named Anxur. The Greeks called it Trachyna, corrupted 

 into Terracina. In the year of Rome 348, it was taken 

 and plundered by Fabius Ambuftus ; and in 424 was made 

 a Roman colony. Being built on a rock, in the reign of 

 Tiberius 20,000 perfons viere killed by the fall of a theatre. 

 It is now a poor place. It had once a harbour : but that is 

 choaked up ; near Terracina are confiderable fragments of 

 the Via Appia, made from Rome to Capua by Appiui 

 Claudius Coccus, and begun by him while ccnfor, in the 

 year of Rome 440 : this road was paved with hard ftone of 

 various fizes, but uniformly twelve inches in thicknefs ; 

 and was wide enough for two carriages; 47 miles S.E. of 

 Rome. Near this place was a fountain of Neptune, the 

 water of which was faid to be fatal. 



TERRADEGLIAS, or Terradellas, Domenico, 

 in Biography, a native of Barcelona, in Spain ; but who 

 went early into Italy, where he ftudied mufic at Naples 

 under Durante, as an accomplifliment ; but was reduced, by 

 accidents in his family, to praftife it as a profelTion. 



He began to flourifli about 1739, when he compofed the 

 opera of " Aftarto," and part of " Romolo," in con- 

 junftion with Latilla, for the Teatro delle Dame, at Rome. 



In the latter end of the year 1746 he came to England, 

 where he compofed two operas, " Mithridatce" anil 

 " Bellerophon." But unfortunately for the compofjr, none 

 of the fingers of this time ftood high in the favour of the pub- 

 lic. Yet his opera of " Mitridate," we well remember, received 

 much applaufe, as mufic, diftindl from what was given to 

 the performers. And liis compofitions, when executed in 

 Italy by fingers of the firft clafs, acquired him great re- 

 putation. 



Befides the favourite fongs in the two operas juft men- 

 tioned, which are printed by Walfli, Terradellas himfelf, 

 while he was in England, pubhflied a coUedlion of twelve 

 Italian airs and duets in fcore, which he dedicated to lady 

 Chefterfield. In thefe he feems lefs mafterly and original 

 than in his other produftions that have come to our know- 

 ledge. , In the fongs he compofed for ReginelU, a very 

 learned finger in ruin, we find boldnefs and force, as well as 

 pathos. And fome arte di bravura of his compofition, for 

 the celebrated tenor finger Babbi, at Rome, abound with 

 fire and fpirit. If his produftions are compared with thofe 

 of his contemporaries, his writings, in general, muft be 

 allowed to have great merit ; though his paflages now feem 

 old and common. This corapofer having fpent his youth in 

 Catalonia, was not regularly initiated into the myfteries of 

 counterpoint in any Neapolitan converfatorio, having been 

 placed under Durante, for a fliort time, only as a private 

 fcholar ; and we think we can fometimes difcovcr in his 

 fcores, through all his genius and elegance of ftyle, a want 

 of ftudy and harmonic erudition. 



Terradellas was remarkable, not only for attending, in 

 every fituation of tiie finger, to the fpirit of the drama 

 which he had to compofe, but for giving good mufic to bad 

 fingers, and not uni/cr-writing, as Mr. Bayes calls it, the 

 inferior parts of his theatrical pieces. Indeed, it has always 

 appeared to us, that an exquifite finger who can command 

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