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otwith standing the numerous volumes on Grecian Archi- 



tecture from the days of Vitruvius to the present time, to which 

 may be added all that have appeared within the last century 

 on the subject of Gothic Antiquities: little or no notice has been 

 taken of the relative effects of the two styles, compared with 

 each other; nor even of those leading principles by which they 

 are to be distinguished, characterised, and appropriated to the 

 scenery of nature. 



Greci 



would seem as if the whole science of 

 an Architecture consisted in the five orders of columns, 



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and that of Gothic in pointed arches and notched battlements. 



o explain this subject more clearly, and bring it before 



the eye more distinctly, I will refer to the following Plate, 





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