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cise in his own writings, and who 
hopes to avoid all mistakes im con- 
struing theterms employed by others, 
will admit the propriety of the plan 
now suggested, or give it a better 
modification, 
I would recommend that each 
decisive variety of style, in ancient 
buildings, be designated by one of 
the following phrases, agreeably to 
the era of its prevalence; and to be 
more precise in these, it may be ne-~ 
cessary to specify five divisions, or 
eras of time ; each of which is marked 
by,a distinct style of architecture in 
the public buildings erected during 
the respective periods. 
Sketch of a Nomenclature of An- 
cient Architecture, intended to 
affix precise terms to each peculiar 
style in English buildings. 
First style-—Anglo-Saxun. This 
will embrace all buildings that were 
erected between the times of the 
conversion of the Saxons, and the 
Norman conquest, from A. D. 597, 
to A. D. 1066, 
Second style—Anglo-Norman, by 
which will be meant that style which 
prevailed from 1066 to 1189, in- 
cluding the reigns of Williams [. and 
ui Henry 1. Stephen, and Henry 
We 
Third style-—English, from 1189, 
to. 1272, embracing the reigns of 
Richard I. John, and Henry ILL, 
Fourth style-—Decorated English, 
from 1272, to 1461, including the 
reigns of Edwards J. Tf. and III. 
Richard If. and Henrys LY. V. and 
Fifth style—AHighly decorated, 
or florid English, from 1461 to 1509, 
including the reigns of Edwards IV. 
and V, Richard III. and Henry 
VIL. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
From this era we lose sight of all 
style and congruity; and the publi 
buildings erected during the reigns 
of Henry VIII. Elizabeth, and- 
James I. may be characterised by 
the terms of Debased English, or 
Anglo-L[talian, 
Account of the Ruins of Carthage, 
and of Udenain Barbary, by John 
Jackson, Esq. F. A. 8. in a Letter 
to John Wilkinson, M. D. F. R. | 
S. and F. AS. 
Read Dec. 15, 1803. 
Tonnisholm Hall, Nov. 25, 1803. 
Sir,—The scite of ancient Carthage 
appears to have been a most excel- 
lent situation for commerce, no part 
of the world could afford better ac- 
commodation for shipping; here is 
a lake about ten miles long, and 
five broad at the widest part, in a di- 
rect line between the ruins of Car- 
thage, and the city of Tunis, and 
communicating with the sea, by a 
navigable canal at the Goletta, near 
Carthage. On examining this lake, 
I found that it had once been about 
eighteen feet in depth, with an hard 
bottom, except a part of the east: 
side, lying near the sea between the 
Goletta and the Tunis. Here are 
the remains of houses for about three 
miles, their breadth at the broadest 
part does not appear to have been 
above a mile. I took a great deal 
of pains to satisfy my curiosity re- 
specting these houses: having a boat 
belonging to a ship of war, n> other 
being permitted to navigate on this 
lake at low water. Some of the tops 
of them were not above a foot under 
the surface of the water; at the Go- 
letta there is generally a rise and fall 
of the tide, about three feet; but 
the canal between the sea and the 
lake 
