Art Out-of-Doors 
dependencies shall not be determined until 
this arrangement has been mapped out. 
If the grounds are large, and their surface 
is not perfectly flat and uniform, it may 
easily happen that, on the site which seems 
best to the architect, the relative positions of 
the high road and the entrance-front would 
be such that no good approach could be de- 
signed. For an approach to be good there 
must be an easy turn-in from the high road ; 
the grade within the gate must be uniform 
and as gentle as possible ; there must be no 
sharp turns, dangerous alike to meeting 
vehicles and to bordering turf ; the house 
must be well displayed to advancing eyes ; 
and the line of gravel must not so intersect 
the ground as to interfere with a beautiful ar- 
rangement of its parts, or to be itself a dis- 
agreeable object when seen from the house. 
Too often not one of these necessities is ful- 
filled in the approach, although all might 
have been fulfilled had the house been 
properly placed. Sometimes even a change 
in position so slight that it would not have 
perceptibly altered either aspect or prospect 
in general, would have made all the differ- 
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