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showing him more than one walk at a time, but taking care, at the same 
time, to let him have frequent and extensive views across the lawn, and 
these views always different, constitute the grand secret of making a 
small place look large. 
The walks are filled to the brim with gravel, kept firmly rolled, and 
their grass margins are dipt, but never cut ; because the gravel, being 
almost as high as the turf, the latter can never sink down, and swell out 
over the former. This it invariably does when the turf is a few inches 
higher than the gravel ; and, hence, paring off the part of the turf which 
had projected was originally, no doubt, adopted only as a remedy for 
the evil, though it is now erroneously practised by gardeners as an evi- 
dence of care and good keeping. As much of the beauty of the walk 
depends upon the beauty of its boundary, the feeling that this boundary 
is likely to be disturbed every time the walk is cleaned, or the adjoining 
turf mown, is extremely disagreeable. The freshly pared turf becomes 
a spot or a scar in the scene, withdrawing the attention from the walk 
