The earth that is dug out from the cellars must be raised on one side so high as to make a terrace garden as high as the level of the hall; but between the earth of the terrace and the wall of the house, leave an interval in order that the damp may not spoil the principal walls.
IV. Ecclesiastical Architecture.
A. General Observations.
Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.