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all the rooms to be plaiftered, and all the upper 
rooms to be cieled. 
As fome gentlemen may wifh to build cottages 
in parks or plantations, to ferve in fome degree as 
ornaments thereto; part of thefe defigns are calcu- 
lated for that purpofe, with very little addition to 
the expence. 
N. B. Asthe materials ufed in building cottages 
differ fo very materially both in their kind and price 
in different parts of the Weftern counties, (much 
more fo than in more expenfive buildings) and as 
the price of labour is frequently low where the price 
of materials is very high, and vicé ver{a; the col- 
lector of thefe plans thought it would be moft likely 
to meet the wifhes of the fociety, to felect fuch as 
contain the greateft quantity of convenient room, 
with the leaft quantity of materials, and to give a 
round fum at which they may im general be exe- 
cuted in the Weftern counties, inftead of entering 
into a detailed cftimate of the particulars, as the 
latter muft be local, and can only hold good in 
particular fituations. 
