Chap. Ill 



Of different Terraffes and Stairry mtk 

 their mofi exaB Proportions. 



I S in this the greatefl Expence of a Garden? 

 confiftSj and about which you ought to take 

 the greateft Ciu*e, when there is an abfolute 

 Neceffity^ by reafon of the too quick Declivity 

 of the Ground, to fupport the Earth with 

 Terralfes. There is no Difpute but the Tranfporting and 

 Removing of Earth is a vaft and exccllive Charge ^ yet 'tis aa 

 Expence fo little feen, that though one of the moft confide-- 

 rable, it does the leaft Credit to. its Matter. We are apt to- 

 think, when we fee a Garden well made, with Terraffes ex- 

 actly level and well fupported, that it mufl: have been dif- 

 pofed fo by Nature fo that to know any thing of Works of 

 this Kind, we muft have feen them performed, for they are 

 hardly to be apprehended, when finiflied and complete. 

 You can't then be too circumfped and wary in Underta- 

 kings of this Sort, if you would avoid the Follies and Mi- 

 ftakes that fome Men daily run into. 



When you meet with a Piece of Ground whofe Shelving; 

 F I G; I, is very fteep, as perhaps of the Hill which you would^ 

 make prafticable for a Garden^ it may, be order d three fe- 

 veral Ways. - 



F/r/?, By making Terraffes one above another,, at feveral 

 FIG. IL Heights, and fupporting the Earth with fufficient. Walls of 

 Mafonry. 



Secondly^ By making fuch TerraiTes, as will fupport them- 

 f I G. III. fdves without a Wall, by Means of Banks and Slopes cut at 

 the Extremity of every Terrafs*. 



