The Englijh Gardner . 117 
level with your firft (lakes, having one, whilft you eye your 
(lakes, either to raife or drive your (lakes lower as you (hall 
appoint, until it be exadt,and then you may proceed as before, 
as occafion requires, until you have (laked out all your bor- 
ders by your Wall, or out-fide Fence 3 and then you are to 
proceed to the other part of your ground, firft meafuring 
the breadth you intend for your Walk round your Plot or 
utmofl Walk, and then at (omefpecial corner of your inten¬ 
ded next border or quarter: having ranged your Line the 
length of your ground, and cad out your Walk, pitch down 
a (lake oxatftly at the corner of your quarter, and level it with 
one of your firft Stakes, and then a fecond in the (ame (freight 
line of the (ame height or level with the firft, and fo proceed 
the whole length, pitching in a (lake at every fpecial corner 
of your work, which will be a (landing rule to you, not on¬ 
ly for the level of your ground, but alio for the exacl carry¬ 
ing off your quarters fquare or equal 3 and having levelled as 
many (lakes as you think is (ufficient for every part of your 
ground, go to your firft (lake, and confider what height you 
are to carry your ground at, either as it will maintain of it 
fel£ or as the conveniences you have to that purpofe will 
bear, being careful that you do not raife your groun i fo as 
to obftrud your door-ways or comings in, &c. and having 
confidered your height, make a notch on your (lake quite 
round at the height you intend to carry your level, and then 
with a (lick or rule meafure from the top of your (lake, to 
the notch or mark you made 3 and according to that mea¬ 
fure go and notch or mark all your (lakes, or as many as you 
think fit from the top downward, and where the mark falls 
to be, is the level or height you propounded 3 fo that after 
you have marked your (lakes, if you think upon due confide- 
ration that you have refolved either too high or too low,you 
may accordingly propound another height, and being refol¬ 
ved, it is but faftning a line about the notch of one ftake^ 
and faftning it tite about the notch of another, and by it, if 
you cannot do without it, you may carry on your work level- 
