In disposing of the area opposite Sloane Example 

 Street, a new mode of treatment for a cadogan 

 square was adopted. Instead of raising 

 the surface to the level of the street, as 

 had heen usually the custom, by bringing 

 earth from a distance, I recommended a 

 valley to be formed through its whole 

 length, with other lesser valleys flowing 

 into it, and the hills to be raised by 

 the ground so taken from the valleys. 

 Although, in compliance with the general 

 custom and use of a square, the walk on 

 two sides is carried straight, yet the other 

 walks are made to take such curves as 

 the supposed natural shapes of the ground 

 might warrant; and thus the appearance 

 of nature is in some degree preserved in 

 this evidently artificial subject. I cannot 

 omit to mention, that in the plan, a brook 

 was proposed to pass through the valley, 

 which might have been supplied with the 



garden are united into one valley : and at Wilton Park, 

 in that neighbourhood, where a small valley has been 

 formed between the house and the orangerie with great 

 effect. 



