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idea is not frustrated ; for common cottages have frequently 

 cart roads which are carried close to their front. 



3dly, Villas. — The lowest class of these must be supposed to 

 be visited by carriages ] consequently they have always a road 

 to their front, and generally a portico. Frequently too they 

 have an entrance front, and another called a garden front, 

 which looks into the pleasure ground. Thus we have two, and 

 often three fronts in villas, which chiefly require ornamental 

 appendages. These fronts are plainly divided into two parts — 

 those on the ornamented side of the house ; and those on the 

 useful or entrance side, which is generally less decorated than 

 the other. 



On the park front, or useful side, then, we require a barrier to 

 keep off the cattle. A paling would be too mean. A wall raised 

 on the surface would exclude the view; but one partly built in 

 an excavation, in the manner of a sunk fence, carried up two 

 or three feet above the surface, and finished either with- a balus- 

 trade if the mansion be in the Grecian style, or with battle- 

 ments if it be Gothic, or with a finish corresponding with the 

 finish of the parapets or other parts of the mansion. Across 

 this fence the road to the portico must pass, which will require 

 a gate, and consequently a bridge over the excavation. Piers 

 also will be requisite on which to hang the gate and parapets 



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