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dillant, in tlie internal parts, chiefly for variety. They may 

 be laid out in various irregular direftions, fo as to fuit the 

 tafte and the nature of the grounds, having broad, irregular 

 borders of flovrers, floping winding fhrubberies, and trees 

 or plantations on their fides, and in other parts. 



In regard to the general care and management of walks, 

 thofe of the gravel, fand, or other hard kinds of materials, 

 (hould be conilantly kept in neat and clean order by occa- 

 fional weeding, fweeping, and cleaning them, and by fre- 

 quently roUing them well with an iron or ftone-roUer, as 

 once or twice a week during the fummer months, as their 

 furfaces may appear in a loolc ard difordered ftate, taking 

 the opportunity of doing it, r.s often as poflible, after 

 ftiowers of rain. This renders them firm and folid, fettling 

 any inequalities that may be prefent, and brings them into 

 a fmooth even ftate of furface. They fhould alfo be occa- 

 fionally rolled in dry open weather, during the winter and 

 fpring months, to keep them in a level regular ftate. 



When the furfaces of them become foul, moffy, or full of 

 weeds, the gravel or other materials (hould be turned, which 

 is beft done in the early fpring, by means of digging them 

 up to a (light depth, and placing the former furface part 

 downwards, by which the frefh bottom gravel will become 

 the top, and then treading, raking, and rolling the whole 

 well down again, by which means a new clean furface for 

 the enfuing fpring and fummer feafons is obtained wathout 

 any great trouble or expence. 



The different grafs-walks (hould have the fward con- 

 ftantly kept clofe and clean by frequent mowing, fweeping, 

 and rolling, during the fpring and fummer months ; and in 

 the winter time by occalional poling and rolling when the 

 weather is open and dry, the former fcattering the worm- 

 caft earth about, wliile the latter, which is commonly of the 

 wooden kind, cleans up the difperfed earth by its adliering 

 to it, and thereby not only renders the furface free from dirt, 

 but the whole furface clofe, firm, and even, whereby it be- 

 comes capable of being mown with eafe and facility. 



The walks of pleafure-grounds, gardens, and other fuch 

 places, Ihould never be fiiffered to have leaves, weeds, or 

 any fort of rubbi(h, remaining upon them for any length of 

 time, as they foon become injured and fpoiled by them. 



Where feats are had recourfe to in the walks of fuch 

 grounds, they fhould be introduced and managed with con- 

 fiderable judgment, tafte, and nicety, fo as to fuit the 

 nature of them and the grounds, and be at the fame time as 

 ornamental as pofhble. 



Walk, in the Manege, is the (loweft and leaft raifed of 

 all a horfe's goings. The duke of Newcaftle fays, that this 

 motion is performed with two legs, diametrically oppofite in 

 the air, and two upon the ground at the fame time, in form 

 of a St. Andrew's crofs ; but this, in reaiity, is the motion 

 of a trot ; and accordingly all the latter writers agree, that 

 this author is miftaken, and that the walk is performed, as 

 any one may obferve, by the horfe's lifting up its two legs 

 on a fide, the one after the other, beginning with the hind 

 leg firft. Thus, if he leads with the legs of the right fide, 

 then the firft foot he lifts is the far hind-foot, and m the time 

 he is fetting it down (which in a flep is always fhort of the 

 tread of his fore-foot on the fame fide ) he hfts his far fore- 

 foot, and fets it down before his near fore-foot. Again, 

 juft as he is fetting down his far fore-foot, he lifts up his 

 near hind-foot, and fets it down again juft fhort of his 

 near fore-foot, and juft as he is fetting it down, he lifts 

 his near fore-foot, and fets it down beyond his far fore- 

 foot. 



This is the true motion of a horfe's legs in a walk ; and 

 this is the pace in which many things are beft taught. For 



inftance, when the horfe is to be taught to turn to the right 

 and left, or from one hand to another, he is firft to be 

 tav'.ght it on the walk, then on the trot, and finally on tl»e 

 gallop. 



The walk is a pace to which team, carriage, and road 

 horfes, fhould conftantly be well broke, as being of great ufc 

 in all fuch cafes and intentions. It is an excellent pace, too, 

 in a faddle-horfe, when well performed by being properly 

 taught. 



Wat-K, Ring, among Hunters. See RlNG-^fl/i. 



Walk, Terrace. See Terrace. 



Walks, Sheep, in jigrkulture, the high dry lands where 

 (heep pafture in fome diftrifts. Thefe walks and paftures may, 

 it is fuppofed, be rendered more found and healthy, in fome 

 cafes, by fowing parts of them with artificial grafs feeds, 

 fuch as thofe of rye-grafs, rib-grafs, white clover, or tre- 

 foil, and others of the fame kind, in mixture with thofe of 

 the natural grafs fort, and keeping them clofely fed down ii'. 

 a proper manner. In different inftances, a number of va- 

 luable plants of this nature are found to rife fpontaneoufiy 

 on the foundeft fheep-walks, and moft of tliem, when de- 

 (irable, are capable of being raifed and produced by feed as 

 above. Such plants are faid to proteft fheep well againfl 

 the rot or poke, and fome other difeafcs, in fuch walks and 

 paftures. See Rot and Sheep. 



Walk-MUI, in Rural Economy, a name fometimes ap- 

 plied to the fulling-mill. 



WALK.£PETHIGA, in Botany, a name by wliich 

 fome authors have called the tree, on which the gum lacca 

 of the (hops is ufually found. 



WALKENRIED, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the lordfhip of Klettenberg, with an abbey, founded in 

 the year 1127, by Adelheida, confort to Volkmar, count 

 of Klettenberg, and countefs of Lohra. Tiie doftrine of 

 Luther was introduced in the year 1546; at the peace of 

 Weftphaha, the abbey was afllgned to the duke of Brunf- 

 wick ; 8 miles N.W. of Nordhaufen. 



WALKENSEE, a' town of Bavaria, fituated by the 

 fide of a lake of the fame name ; 18 miles S.S.E. of Weil- 

 haim. 



WALKER, Robert, in B'ngraphy, one of the earlieft 

 of our portrait painters : he was contemporary with Van- 

 dyck, and improved himfelf by ftudying the works of that 

 eminent artift. He did not attraft much pubhc notice till 

 the time of the Commonwealth, when Cromwell made him 

 his portrait painter, and he drew that extraordinary per- 

 fonage feveral times. One pifture of him by Walker is at 

 Horfeth, the feat of lord Mountford in Cambridgefllire : 

 it was given to his lordfhip by Mr. CommiiTary Greaves, 

 who found it at an inn in that county. Another is at Ca- 

 fhiobury, the earl of EfTex's. Another pifture of him, 

 with general Lambert, was in lord Bradford's colleftion. 

 A fourth was purchafed at the coft of 500/. for the grand 

 duke of Tufcany. Walker had for fome time an apart- 

 ment in Arundel Houfe, and died a little before the Reflo- 

 ration. His own pifture which is a very fair fpecimen of 

 his povcer is in the gallery at Oxford. 



Walker, George, F.R.S., a difTenting divine, and 

 eminent mathematician, was born at Newcaftle -upon- 

 Tyne, about the year 1734, and completed his education 

 at the univerfity of Edinburgh, under the celebrated 

 mathematician Dr. Matt. Stewart, and at Glafgow, where 

 he ftudied theology and ethics. In 1756 he fettled at 

 Durham as a diffenting minifter, and thence removed to 

 Yarmouth, where he remained for fome years, and was 

 highly efteemed. During liis refidence at Yarmouth he 

 1 1 married ; 



