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Of the Manner of making or drejfing ^ 

 Ground, and of digging and removing 

 the Earth. 



HEN you have made Choice of a Piece of 

 Ground^ and determin'd the Extent that is 

 to be enclofcd with Walls^ the next Work is 

 to drefs it^. and bring it as near a Level as is 

 poffible. But, as the Ground propofed to be 

 wrought upon, is almoft conftantly found 

 uneaven and irregulai-, you are indifpenfably obliged,, either 

 to make it according-to its natural Sloping, or to reduce it 

 . to a perfed Level. 



A Piece of Ground is faid to be made upon its natural 

 Slope, when, following the Situation of the Place, without 

 carrying out or bringing ia any confiderable Quantity of 

 Earth, you do no more than fill up the Holes, or level the 

 Banks, fo that the Ground be laid eaven and uniform 

 throughout, according to its natural Declivity. 



It is called making a Piece of Ground perfciftly level,, 

 when, by means of an Inftrument calfd a Level, it is laid 

 with fuch Exadnefs, that no manner of Slope remains thro*" 

 the whole Extent of it. 



'Tis very rare to find Ground that can be reduced to a 

 perfeit Level ; befides its ordinary Situation, which is con- 

 ftantly uneaven, and fomewhat floping, the Expence necef- ■ 

 farily required to move the higher Parts of it to the lower, 

 difcourages People from courting this Perfedlion. Moil Men 

 choofe rather to make Ground upon its natural Slope, fo as 

 to render it agreeable and infenfible to. the Eye, and fcarce at 

 all tirefome to the Foot, which has this Advantage too, that 

 its. Sloping ferves^ as a natural Current for the Floods and 



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