

FRAGMENT II. 



RELATING 



TO 



SYMMETRY. 



The elevations in the first Plate will serve to elucidate some 

 remarks on Architecture, not to be expected in treatises which 

 relate merely to the five orders, and their symmetrical arrange- 

 ment. Such works give a very inadequate idea of I hat art which 



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teaches to adapt the habitation of man to rural scenery, uniting 



The 



convenience with beauty, and utility with ornament, 

 houses A, B, and C, represent that sort o 



front 



w 



hich 



may 



e extended to any length, even till it reaches the dimen- 

 sions of a barrack or an hospital. But in all such fronts, a 



deemed essential ; and therefore 



certain degree of symmetry is 



the door in the centre of the building. Thi 



we expect to see 



arrangement, in small houses, tends to destroy interior comfort, 



by dividing from each other those principal rooms which a 



family is now supposed to occupy. 



If the principal rooms command a south-east aspect (which 

 is doubtless the most desirable), the entrance in the centre, with 



a hall or vestibule, destroys that uniformity of temperament, so 

 obviously useful to the coi 



nfort of an English dwelling; and 



therefore, in at least one half of the houses submitted to my 



ave found it necessary to change the hall into 



a 



opinion, 



saloon, or the vestibule into an anti-room ; making the entrance 





