TREATMENT OF GROUND. FORMATION OF WALKS. -29o 
elegant effect is produced by having two fronts : one, the 
entrance front, with the porch or portico nearest the road, 
and the other, the river front, facing the water. The beauty 
of the whole is often surprisingly enhanced by this arrange- 
ment, for the visitor, after passing by the Approach through 
a considerable portion of the grounds, with perhaps but 
slight and partial glimpses of the river, is most agreeably 
surprised on entering the house, and looking from the 
drawing-room windows of the other front, to behold another 
Beautiful scene totally different from the last, enriched and 
ennobled by the wide-spread sheet of water before him. 
Much of the effect produced by this agreeable surprise 
from the interior, it will readily be seen, would be lost, if 
the stranger had already driven round and alighted on the 
river front. 
The Drive is a variety of road rarely seen among us, yet 
which may be made a very agreeable feature in some of 
our country residences, at a small expense. It is intended 
for exercise more secluded than that upon the public road, 
and to show the interesting portions of the place from the 
carriage, or on horseback. Of course it can only be formed 
upon places of considerable extent ; but it enhances the 
enjoyment of suc'h places very highly, in the estimation of 
those who are fond of equestrian exercises. It generally 
commences where the approach terminates, viz. near the 
house : and from thence, proceeds in the same easy curvi- 
linear manner through various parts of the grounds, farm 
or estate. Sometimes it sweeps through the pleasure 
grounds, and returns along the very beach of the rivei, 
beneath the fine overhanging foliage of its projecting bank ; 
sometimes it proceeds towards some favorite point of 
view, or interesting spot on the landscape ; or at others it 
