Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

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descending from the heights, which are afterwards
•discharged by arched gulleys under the roads, into the
plains below $ forming, in the rainy season, a great
number of little cascades, that increase the beauty os the
scenery. The roads which are dessgned for carriages, they
make as level as possible; giving them a solid bottom,
and shaping them so as to throw off the rain-waters
expeditioussy: they use, as much as possible, the nearest
materials, to save expence; and are very judicious in
employing disserent soils to form mixtures, which never
become either hard or ssippery ; never loose in dry wea-
ther, nor deep in wet; not eassly ground into powder;
nor ever forming a rough ssinty surface, difficult and
painful for horses to move upon.
Their walks are either of grass, os gravel, or chippings
of stone, covered with a small quantity of coarse river-
sand. The first sort, which are seldom used but in
private Gardens, they being too liable to be spoiled in
public walks, are made of the finell and cleanest turf
that can be found on downs and commons; and they are

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