of Building Houses, Slrcets, ^c. 103 



suited to the various classes and ranks of society ; and the 

 beautv, variety, change, and infinite extent of view, cither 

 standing or moving, in such a city, may easily be imagined: 

 but as this plan is general, and all objections that may be 

 brought against it are likely to be particular, they caanot 

 leg'itimately oppose it. 



To end, then, at the point of coincidence from which I 

 departed, the distribution of this city is into hexagons, ac- 

 cording with the natural arrangement of the forest pointed 

 out by the author of the ingenious paper I have quoted ; to 

 which may be added, that the circle is the form indicated 

 by nature, and instinctively followed by inferior animals in 

 the construction of their habitations, and in the huts of in- 

 fant societies, as those of the Caftres, who observe this form 

 not only in their individual habitations, but also in their 

 kralls or villages. 



Thus I have described the individual, species, and genus 

 of my plan, advancing from the lowest to the highest ; and 

 lest some readers should conclude that I am, like certain 

 modern politicians, so glddied by turning in a circle and 

 disposed to whirl all things together in my vortex, or, ia 

 other terms, so blinded by a system as to recommend seri- 

 ously the universal adoption of a perfectly uniform plan, to 

 the exckislon of long established customs adapted to the dis- 

 united and imperfect state of man, I must declare, ere I 

 take my leave, that the purpose of this essay is merely to 

 sketch a speculative model for the excitement of thought, 

 and from which the artist is at liberty to select, to reject al- 

 logclher, to recompose, or V4ry tg his purposes. 



G. Field, 



G4 XVII. OvE 



