This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1718 Excerpt: ...Breathing-Place be-fore him, with Ridings thro' it. Neverthelefs, if it be not already grown, it may be plac'd farther $ but of this more anon. h 3 C H A P. CHAP. V. QfTfeRRACE-WALKS. H E Terrace feems to have been us'd a confiderable Time fince, the Latins terming it Agger, or Aggeftus, as may befuppos'd from ad and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1718 Excerpt: ...Breathing-Place be-fore him, with Ridings thro' it. Neverthelefs, if it be not already grown, it may be plac'd farther $ but of this more anon. h 3 C H A P. CHAP. V. QfTfeRRACE-WALKS. H E Terrace feems to have been us'd a confiderable Time fince, the Latins terming it Agger, or Aggeftus, as may befuppos'd from ad and gerot to qoJlecT: or gather together of an Heap 5 Fttrttvius (that celebrated Roman Architect) and Suetonius, call it by the Name of Pulvinus, a Garden-Bed, or rais'd Walk of Gravel 3 Macrobius, by Solarium, a Sunny Bank, or Walk: But the neareft of our Derivations in Englijb, is from the French, Terrace, or Terraffe 5 and they from the Italians, (from whom they, and almoft all Europe, derive their Terms of Art relating to Building, Gardening, &c.) Terraza, Terrazare, fignifying with them the removing and banking up of fcartn, from one Place into another. But be the Derivation as it will, it is very well known in thefe European Countries and particularly with us, to be a fmall Bank of fcartn, laid out and trimm'd according to Line and Level, being neceflary for the proper E levation levation of any Perfon that walks roundels Sen, to view all that lyes round.hm. And this Elevation is fo neceffary, that all Gar dens muft be efteem'd very f-them not: And, to be plain It hnk it the grateft Fault imaginable in the Author of the Theory and fraBice of Gardening that he has not been more particular m that Rrfpft, f pecially that he has not defignd TM his main Building, where they are f ab oImelv neceffary, both as to Ufe arid Beauty, out them, and, befides, where-everHoufe - to be new built, there is no Polity ol noting of the Earth, Clay, Rubbift, &c. tnat Secelari y comes out of tWCellars and toun. ter left undone perhaps likewi...
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