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pensable to the comfort of every gentleman's 

 habitation : in the old style such walks were 

 very commonly paved ; in the modern, they 

 are generally gravelled : but the great dif- 

 ference in their character arises from their 

 immediate boundaries. That of the gravel 

 walk is of pared ground, than wMch nothing 

 can be m« meagre or formal, or have a 

 poorer effect in a foreground ; and however 

 the line may be broken and disguised by 

 low shrubs partially concealing its edge, it 

 still will be meagre ; and if the grass be 

 suffered to grow over those edges more 

 strongly than in the other mowed parts, it 

 will look slovenly, but neither rich, nor pic- 

 turesque, But the paved terrace, in its 

 least ornamented state, is bounded by a 

 parapet; and the simple circumstance of 

 hewn stone and a coping- without any far- 

 ther addition, has a finished and determined 

 form, together with a certain massiveness 

 which is wanting to the other ; on which ac- 

 count, and from the opposition of its colour 

 to the hue of vegetation, such mere walls 

 are sometimes introduced as parts of the 



