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as it is, would have cost a million sterling less than 

 the present pile ; for though whole quarries of Car- 

 rara marble would have been requisite, yet that port 

 being near the sea, the blocks might have been 

 easily shipped and unladen, within a mile of the 

 building. What more majestic than a forest of 

 Segestan columns of white Carrara marble ! In lieu 

 of Fontana's obelisk, a campanile should have stood, 

 circular in form, surrounded by half Doric columns, 

 of the same style as those of the Coliseum ; these 

 surmounted by as many Ionic, and these by as many 

 Corinthian, and this would combine beauty and 

 utility. Instead of the inscription to the honour of 

 the house of Borghese, there should be inscribed : 



DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO 

 SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROxMANUS.'' 



Such is Mr. Kelsall's " Description of sundry 

 works to be done" in the design of a new Basilica 

 Vaticana for his Holiness the Pope. Could not the 

 affair be managed with still more brevity, as thus ? — 



Col. Diast. Circ. xx. 



Doric. Paest. Hexast. v. 



Col. Bernini. ccxx. 



Col. Ext. Travert. iij. 



Col. Int. Carrar. xiij. 



Pantheon. Rot. oeil-de-bceuf 



Plate glass copper frames, Quant. Suff. 



Dor. Segest. Cam pan. Coliseum xii. 



Wedge Keystone, Mechl. Forces — 



xiij. Jan. mdcccxxxiv. C. K. 



I am tempted to subjoin one other example of the 

 " hey, presto ! " style of castle building. The ar- 

 chitect is Mela Britanicus, who, in 1827, submitted 

 to the society of the Dilettanti his design for a new 

 palace at Windsor, the specification is as follows : — 



" From the eastern extremity of the Winchester 

 tower, draw a line that shall join the eastern end of 

 the secretary of state's. Raze to the ground all the 

 buildings to the right, and destroy defond en comble, 

 the principle range of apartments. Destroy the 

 guard-room and raise a stone wall eight feet high 



