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plane upon which a house should stand. It 

 will not be necessary that the whole space 

 between the house and the terrace should be 

 levelled, where the distance between them is 

 sufficient to allow of an easy undulation. 



I will take the liberty to illustrate my ideas 

 upon this head from Bromley Hill, so justly 

 celebrated for the taste it displays. 



I conceive that the composition would be 

 abundantly improved, if, instead of the open 

 fence showing the awkward slope of the 

 ground, a horizontal wall and corresponding 

 line of terrace were carried as far as the first 

 group of high evergreens, where it might end; 

 as, from the rapid fall of the ground, the fence 

 is then lost from the house. I should return 

 the wall to the corner of the house, which 

 would necessarily throw the approach farther 

 off, and out of sight of the windows, if it were 

 turned before it ascended the hill ; a point, in 

 my estimation, of great importance. These 

 hints were suggested in a hasty view of a 

 place where the just and various calls for 

 admiration left little time for criticism. 



The effect of a terrace wall thus applied 

 may be seen to great advantage at Heanton, 



