5 
SHAPE OF GROUND. 
There is so little inequality of surface, that the ground may be almost 
described as perfectly flat, except that the stables are placed rather higher 
than the general level : this alone would render it necessary to form a 
small valley or hollow betwixt the stables and the house, to prevent the 
latter from being oppressed by the former . 11 Every valley in nature has 
a fall in some one direction, generally serving as a drain for the surface 
water; and wherever this is interrupted, either by natural or artificial 
obstructions, water is formed into a lake in large valleys, and into a pool 
in small ones. 
The most natural shape for the surface will be a valley trending from 
north to south. The great dome has been placed at the north end of 
this valley, and an artificial obstruction from the adjoining town has 
stopped the valley towards the south : this forms a dell or hollow bason, 
which ought (if possible) to have a pool of water, however small it may 
be; and as it is evidently caused by the interference of art, its form should 
be artificial ; any attempt to make it natural would look like affectation. 
In the Drawing N° 3 the slide represents the trees which have been 
removed, not only because they stood in a line through the middle of 
the ground, and hid the dome, but also because the ground on which 
they stood has been lowered to form the valley. 
It may perhaps be deemed too great a refinement in taste, to say 
that a pool is absolutely necessary in this place, because no Indian build- 
ing is ever seen without ; it is not therefore to preserve the character of 
such scenery that the pool is advisable ; but rather for its utility in sup- 
plying the garden with water attempered by the air, and for its beauty 
in reflecting the surrounding objects. 
b Supposing tlie two objects lo be kept distinct: but as I should rather wish to consider them so connected, 
as to form one magnificent whole, under the name of the Pavillon, I cannot treat them as distinct objects, but 
as different parts of the same scenery. 
