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rCiidcnce at Atben?, and had availed himfelf of all the ad- 

 vantages which might be derived from vifiting the architec- 

 tural remains in that part of the eaft. His coUeftion of 

 drawings, w hich were made during his oriental prngrcfs, are 

 univerially known to all the lovers of art and admirers of 

 claflic antiquity. 



His principal work is the New Church at Southampton, 

 which poflefles great merit as it is ; and would have been a 

 very dittinguiflicd monument of his talents, if his original 

 defign had been completed ; but he was curbed and con- 

 trouled in its progrefs bv his employers, the mayor and al- 

 dermen of that borough. 



His plans for wet docks on the Thames, which were of- 

 fered to the confideration of Parliameut, difplay a, very com- 

 prchcnlive knowledge of "the various branches of his profef- 

 fion connefted with fuch an undertaking. We have heard 

 that he firft fuggefted the converfion of the Ifle of Dogs to 

 that ufe to which there is an appearance that it will now be 

 applied. Thefe plans he fometimes thought of publifliing, 

 with large explanations and technical accounts of even,' part; 

 but we know not how far he had proceeded, or whether he 

 had proceeded at all, in fullilling fuch an intention. 



He was once tantalized with the flattering expeftation of 

 being employed at Bath in ereAing a fnitc of buildings for 

 a new arrangement of the public baths in that city. He 

 accordingly made defigns of great beauty and elegance, re- 

 plete with convenience, fall of rare contrivance, and dif- 

 pofed in ao original (tyle of accommodation. But this hope 

 paffed away, as Mr. Revely's hopes were very apt to do. He 

 was aUb the PMitor of the pofihumous volume of Stuart's 

 Antiquities of Greece, and was peculiarly qualified, by his 

 local and profeffional knowledge, for that office. 



He had been a pupil of Sir William Chambers, and, with 



all the fubfequent advantages derived from travel and refi- 



dence in Italy and Greece, it might have' been fuppofed that 



he had a very fair profpect of fucctfi in his profclTion. But 



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