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If the gravel be wider than the traf- 

 fick upon it requires, so much more labour 

 •will be necessary to preserve it neatly: 

 yet it can never be right to put gravel in 

 recesses, that no horse or carriage can 

 possibly reach. If a corner projects too 

 far into the road, the driver will certainly 

 go over it, unless prevented by some 

 obstacle ; yet it never can be right to 

 endanger the safety by unnecessary ob- 

 stacles.'' 

 Park The courts or garden-gates through 



which old mansions were approached pre- 

 vented the intrusion of improper persons, 

 who were stopped by the porter of the 

 gate: but since it has become a fashion 

 to remove these, and to place the house 

 a naked, solitary, and isolated object, in 



c However obvious and self-evident this may ap- 

 pear when pointed out, yet such is the slowness in the 

 progress of improvement, that a witty author observes, 

 " Although spoons have been in use two thousand years, 

 " yet it is only within our own memory that the han- 

 " dies have been turned the right way." In like man- 

 ner, although streets have existed in London from time 

 immemorial, yet it is within every body's memory that 

 the corners were first begun to be rounded off. 



