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either in the side, or at the back of the house, and converting
the lawn to the south into pleasure ground or flower garden, or
a broad terrace dressed with flowers. This of course makes a
total change in the arrangement of all those appendages, in
which the comfort of houses in the country differs so much from
those in a town: in the latter, the offices of every description
are under ground; and the various court-yards, &c. for which
there is no space (as in the country), must be provided for in
areas and cellars under the street.
If the centre of a building be marked by a portico, or such
a visible entrance as invites the stranger to approach it, some
impediment or obstruction becomes necessary to counteract the
habitual-respect for symmetry, and prevent our inclination to
drive up to a door, which is no longer the principal entrance;
and this requires a fence, to indicate that it is the garden front,
and not the entrance front.
As this is a subject which will be explained farther, I shall
for the present only mention, that the hint at D and F describes
the different styles of Fences requisite for Grecian and Gothic
Mansions.