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and when you have rough levelled your walk, let it be well 
trodden or beat, that it may not fettle unequally, after you 
have finifhed; and then having rough levelled as aforefaid, 
then lay on your fine Gravel if you have two forts, and re¬ 
member that if you lay your fine Gravel of a good confide- 
rable thicknefs, you may once a year or once in two years 
new break over your Walks, and flourilh them over with a 
littleor no charge, whereby your Walks will’be as new again. 
The order of laying your Walks is firft to fpread and lay 
your Gravel as it ought to lie, and then to tread it all over 
alike, and then to rake it again, and then with a beater made 
of a piece of Plank to fettle it all over, not bringing your 
rowl upon your Walk until it be well fettled, except it be a 
light wooden rowl, leaft you caufe your Walks to lie in 
whamps, and after you have rowled your Walks once or 
twice in a place, at length it will be a good way to rowl them 
over-thwart with your light rowl, your Walks will fhapethe 
better, alfo in cafe the weather be very dry, it will be a 
good way after you have fhaped your Walks, to water them 
well with a watering pot, and then when they are fo dried 
as that you may walk on them, you may beat or rowl them 
as you fee caufe. 
Take notice, that if your gravel be of a very lean nature, 
and have no earthy fobftance to caufe it to bind, you 
may amend that fault by mixing a quantity of fhort lome 
or clay equally amongft your Gravel, but be careful, you 
do not put too much, left you make a worfe fault, there¬ 
fore ufe the mean $ much more might be laid as to the 
making of Walks, as to the prevention of worms-cafting, 
for which fome ufe ftore of Salt or Soot, and alfo for preven¬ 
tion of Mofs, &c. but being ftraittied for want of time, let 
this fuffice. 
The fitteft and moft convenient feafon for making of Gar¬ 
dens and Walks is the Spring, it being ufually the moft 
temperate and fubtilleft feafon both for fetting of Herbs 
and Flowers, as likewife for the making of Walks, there be- 
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