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Which is the Method used in many Ridings of - Zf/wz-walkssTome \otwhich are a League in Length, adorning this Seat beyond any R a lace(some think) m the World. Many of these indeed are on the "Decay,prejudiced by their being planted so hear one another : But for‘alt ’that,it takes not much from the Beauty of the Fista , which is certainly thefnost surprizingly agreeable ; to which the ample Fountain , and nobleStatues in the Cross-Walks , make so glorious an Addition, as wohldrfequire a particular Description.

' And now do I not for all this so magnify it, as if hot to be paraitffdin our own Country ; where, I dare affirm, are many exceed it, both inForm and Rlanting (which has there several Defects) but as we said,for ane.v otick Example, so admired and celebrated by that boasting Na-tion, as if the Universe could notlhewthe like. ’b ; -

And what, in the mean Time, can be more delightful, than 1 fo ! r ho- ;ble Persons to .adorn their goodly Mansions and Demesnes with Treesof venerable Shade, and profitable Timber? By all the RulescJthd Me-thods imaginable, to cut and dispose those ampler Inclosures intoFatbits ■mARidings for Exercise, Health and Prospect, and fbrdvhichI should here presume to furnilh some farther Directions, were it notalleady done to my Hand b^ the often-cited' Mr. Cooke , in th dt usefulWork of his; where, in Chapter the 38 th, he had laid dowif alh’thatI can conceive necessary, by Measures exactly taken from th e sittddlbf^ine of any Front, following the Centrc-stake, if it be for a °Wdlk :He there determines the Wide ness the Walk , according to- its LertftJJ,

as forty Foot.to one of half a Mile • if more, fifty or sixty and .ifyou withdl desire Shade , that then you should make three Walks , thet)Vo Collaterals twenty Foot broad, to a middle one Of forty, twenty-five to fifty,* so that the Middle be as \Fide as both the otherHe like-wise shews how proper it is that Walks should not terminate ^ abruptly,but rather in some capacious or pretty Figure, be it Circle, Oval , 'Se-r tni-circle, Triangle or Square, especially in Lark's ', or where they donot lead into other Walks ; and even in that Case, that there ?J istay-gracefully be a Circle to receive them : There he shews how to pi'ercfca Walk through the thickest W>od , either by Stakes set up where thevmay be seen to direct, or by Candle and Lanthorn in a calm blight,

He also gives the Distances of the Trees in relation to each other, ac-cording to the Species, and shews how necessary it is to plant therh .nearer in those Ovals , Circles and Squares , &c. for the better Di-stinction of the Figures, suppose to half the Distance of that of theWalks , and proportionable to the Amplitude or Smallness thereof. Asfor Lawns , he advises that they should (if possible) be contrived onthe South or Eaft Side of the Seat or Mansion, for avoiding the Impe-tuousness of Western W inds ; and that your best Rooms may frontthose Lawns and Openings,, and to skreen from the Occidetal and Af-ternoon’s Sun , which also hinders Rrospeft : A Lawn on the North,

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