Example from Cadogan-square.-In disposing of the area opposite Sloane-street, a new mode of treatment for a square was adopted. Instead of raising the surface to the level of the street, as had been usually the custom, by bringing earth from a distance, I recommended a valley to be formed through its whole length, with other lesser valleys flowing into it, and the hills to be raised by the ground so taken from the valleys. Although, in compliance with the general custom and use of a square, the walk on two sides is carried straight, yet the other walks are made to take such curves as the supposed natural shapes of the ground might warrant; and thus the appearance of nature is, in some degree, preserved in this evidently artificial subject. I cannot omit to mention, that, in the plan, a brook was proposed to pass through the valley, which might have been supplied with the overflowings from the Serpentine River; but this was omitted in the execution.
