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WOODLAND SEAT'
PLATE XIV.
A WOODLAND SEAT.
THIS building is intended to be composed chiefly of unbark-
ed wood, which is commonly the refuse of trees felled and sawn
into square timbers for the carpenter. To receive these native
pieces, a frame-work is to be erected, and to which they are
to be fixed; and here the ingenuity of the selecter of the mate-
rials would be fully employed, for much of the design consists
in the choice and disposal of the planks and pieces, so that
by its colour it may claim attention, independent of its outline
and general proportions.
The various sizes of the materials, the colour and texture of
the bark when contrasted with the dark browns and yellow hues
of the sawn surfaces of the timber, afford ample means for an
effective display of taste, particularly as they may be disposed
in infinite variety. The tipper roof is intended to be covered
with reed thatching.
The seat should be placed on the border of an elevated
wood or coppice, at a short distance from the residence: here it
would add relief and force to its sombre or secluded character,
become a resting-place and a shelter from heat or rain, and
induce the visitor more satisfactorily to contemplate the prospects
its situation might command.
OF THE APPROACH.
In the General Plan, Plate 1. this road is designed to possess
all the advaintao'es to be gained through grounms of ,iili limited
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