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follow a winding path, they think it abfurd, faying,, 

 that the road muft either have been made by art, or be 

 worn by the conftant paffage of travellers; in either of 

 which cafes, it cannot be fuppofed that men would go 

 by a crooked line, where they could arrive by a ftraight 

 one. In general, they are very fparing of their twifts, 

 which are always eafy, and fo managed that never more 

 than one curve is perceptible at the fame time. 



They likewife take care to avoid an exadr, parallelifnx 

 in thefe walks, both with regard to the trees which 

 border them, and the ground of which they are compofed. 

 The ufual width given to the walk, is from eight to 

 twenty, or even thirty feet, according to the extent of 

 the plantation; but the trees, on each fide, are, in 

 many places, more diftant; large fpaces being left open, 

 and covered with grafs and wild flowers, or with fern, 

 broom, briars, and underwood. 



The ground of the walk is either of turf or gravel; 



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neither of them finishing exadly at its edges, but run- 

 ning 



