The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 75
ed parks, through which i)ublic roads were purposelymade to pass, and the views displayed by means of sunk fences. Now, onthe contrai-y, as soon as a purchase of land is made, the first thing is to seciu-eand shut np the whole hy a lofty close pale, to cut dowm every tree that willsell, and jdough… … mcnt; they both represent the same spot; formerly, the venerable treesm.arked the property of their ancient proprietor; and the adjoining forest,waste, or common, might, perhaps, produce nothing liut beauty; now thetrees are gone, the pale is set at the very verge of the statute width of road,the…
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