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BUILDING SITES 
is below the level of the road, it is not always more desirable. If 
a dwelling-site has its main walks to the doors on a level with the 
street, and a part of the ground lower, but relatively higher than 
Fig. 6. 
other grounds farther back, the location may be capable of more 
beautiful effects than a plain swell. A bird’s-eye view over small' 
grounds is so rare that any approach to it is a pleasing novelty, 
and the opportunities to obtain such effects should be made the 
most of. The most lovely views the world can boast are narrow 
valleys seen from adjacent hills. Figs. 7 and 8 are sections show¬ 
ing pleasing forms of surfaces below the level of the street, but 
overlooking lower ground farther back. 
A building site may even be much lower than its street en¬ 
trance, as in Figs. 7 and 8, where the level of the road is shown 
Fig. 7. 
at a, on the condition already named, that the ground in its 
rear he still lower relatively. A cottage in the spirit of the Swiss 
style, in such a locality, would be quite appropriate, or, indeed, 
any style in which the roof lines are both prominent and grace- 
