102 Proposal fw a new System 



advantages already pointed out, together with utilities of a 

 more extensive nature, as follows, demonstrable by fig. 5, 

 in which these circles of circular houses are arrangeable in 

 circles of a higher order to infinity. 



It is evident, then, by inspecting the diagram, without 

 resorting to abstract principles, that from every circle thereof 

 there is a straight road to every other circle of this city : 

 hence ihe quickest possible intercourse and uninterrupted 

 communication with its most extreme parts; hence public 

 drains and water-courses, lighting and watching, &c. may 

 be conducted upon the most efficacious and ceconomical 

 plan possible, advantageous to the individual and commu- 

 nity ; and hence the freest circulation of air, health, and 

 order, there being no place close or obstructed — no lanes, 

 courts, and alleys, scenes of filth, disease, and immora- 

 lity. 



As to public buildings, such as palaces and offices of go- 

 vernment, colleges, churches, and almshouses, theatres, 

 prisons, forts, &c., the first might occupy a grand circle 

 in the centre of the city, of a proportion and magnificence 

 worthy of the whole ; the rest might be distributed in other 

 parts of the city, according to their nature and convenience; 

 and it might be shovi-n, and may be easily conceived from 

 what precedes, in what manner the circular form is best 

 of all adapted to their respective purposes : in fine, it were 

 an offence to common sense to extend this description to 

 the further uses and variations of this plan. 



On the other hand, I am aware of the opposition which 

 may be urged against it by long established prejudice to the 

 square form ; the adaption of habits, tools, materials, and 

 instruments, to this latter form, by which circular work is 

 attended with difficulty and expense in nowise natural to it ; 

 the outcry for picturesque beauty and variet_y where mecha- 

 nical beauty, viz. simplicity and uniformity, only should 

 be demanded by true taste ; yet the charge of sameness is 

 more applicable to the lineal form of streets and squares, 

 while this plan is susceptible, without disturbing it, of va- 

 riations in tlie dimensions and ornaments of its buildings 



suited 



