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* rhe French 



call this an 

 AlleeenZic- 

 2a c, for its 

 likevefs to a 

 Machine fo caU 

 led) which C07t* 

 fifiinji of mmy 

 Pieces^ every 

 two crofs one 

 another like an 

 X, mvivg 071 

 a Fin at their 

 Center^ and at 

 their Extremi- 

 ties fafle?ied 

 ■with Foims to 

 the Ends of o- 

 thers that meet 

 them, which 

 forming feve* 

 ral Lozenges , 

 are very much 

 extended, or 

 very much con- 

 trailed at one 

 Morion, iike 

 that of the 0' 

 pening of a 

 Fair of Ci^^ars* 

 See the lafi 

 Plate, Fig.u 



The Theory Part L 



are too fteep, they offend the Eye, and are very tirefome ta 

 the Foot r Their Rife lliould feldom or never exceed three 

 Inches in a Fathom, left the Walk be fpoiled by the Tor- 

 rents of Water. Tliis is the beft Rule you can follow to 

 make them well j but when the Ground will not admit of 

 it, and you are obliged to a much quicker Fall, as in a 

 Walk that leads down by the Side of a Cafcade ; you may 

 then help this great Steepnefs by certain Refts and Steps of 

 Grafs laid in Zic-Zac^ and called by the French^ Che-vronr^ 

 which crofs the Walk obliquely from Side to Side ^ or elfe^ 

 by fmall Stops made of Ship-plank, which rifing about two 

 Inches above the Walk, check the Water, and turn it off 

 upon the Sides, by which means the Walk may be kept 

 neat, and in good Order. 



For draining the Ground, you fliould obferve to keep 

 the middle Part of a Walk fomething the higheft, that the 

 Water running off to the Sides, may not have Time to fpoil 

 the Level of the Walki by this means likewife it will be- 

 come ufeful, and ferve to water the Paiifades, Borders, aad 

 Trees upon the Sides. 



The Breadth of Walks fliould be proportioned to their 

 Length, for in this lies their greateft Beauty. We have had 

 Perfons of great Ability in Gardening, who have failed of 

 this juft Proportion, and given Walks too much Breadth for 

 their Length. One may fall alfo into the contrary Fault,, 

 and make them too narrow. If, for Inftance, a Walk of 

 6oo Foot long were no more than twelve or eighteen Foot 

 wide, it would be very defedlive, andappearbutlikeaGut;. 

 whereas had it been thirty or fix and thirty Foot wide, it 

 would have looked very handfome and well proportioned, 

 fuppofing ic ftill to be fingle : So Walks of 1200 Foot long,, 

 fliould have their Breadth from forty two Foot to forty eight 

 Foot: Thofe of 1800 Foot long, from fifty four Foot to- 

 fixty Foot ; and thofe of 2400 Foot, or near half a 

 Mile long,^from fixty to feventy two Foot. This is very 

 near a juft Proportion for Walks that are not double ; for in 

 fuch cafe they Ihould have near twice the Breadth here mea* 

 tioned, including the Counter-walks,. 



.These 



