Architecture in the United States. Q57 
spots greater advantages of ground than in others. These should be 
seized upon and turned to the best account for beauty or conven- 
ience, but particularly for beauty ; for convenience will usually take 
good care of itself. A proper use of these will insure sufficient varie- 
ty to a city, and the remainder of the site may be occupied by squares 
and rectangular parallelograms. Even these last however, if carefully 
' adjusted, will admit of very great variety, as I shall presently show : 
Sameness should always be avoided : if it is tiresome in a landscape, 
it is doubly so in the plan of a city, in which walls and windows and 
roofs are necessarily much alike, and uniformity is apt enough to 
come without being sought. A city like the one I propose, would 
unite convenience, symmetry, neatness, variety, and'beauty : Tadd 
also elegance, and shall now proceed to take it up in detail.” 
We are first to study the ground, and ascertaining its several ad- 
vantages, form the main features of our plan from these : I consider 
rounded eminences of moderate elevation a very great advantage. 
There are few towns that have not some heights: where there are none, 
other spots may be selected for the same purpose, though they will not 
suit so well. To show the reader what use I wish to be made of them, I 
will convey him for a few moments to Marseilles, in France. In the 
new part of that city, are two wide streets, called Les allées des Cap- 
uchins, and Les allées de Meilhan. They start from another called 
Le Boulevard, and meet at no great distance from it, forming with 
each other an angle of about thirty degress. Each is planted with 
four rows of trees, forming three well arched and handsome avenues, 
the ground below being firm, dry, and rounded from the middle to a 
channel on each side: the parts outside and next the houses are ap- 
propriated to carriages and wagons, which are excluded from the ave- 
nues. At the point where the central avenues of the two streets meet, 
is a fountain, cheap and plain, but of exceeding beauty- Tt isa 
large basin of water, elevated five or six feet, and handsomely sodded 
around: from the centre shoots up to a pone height a ae deli- 
cate, silvery jet. Ihave seen the splendid fountams in the portico 
of St. nig at Rome, but they did not affect me with half the 
pleasure that was given by this simple small stream amid the green 
well arched trees. It goes to prove what I have already said, that 
great wealth is not necessary to the cultivation of taste. Indeed 
most of the fountains at Rome err on this point. They pour forth 
immense volumes of water amid marble basins and tritons, and noise 
horses and cars; but I think taste would prefer even the simple 
Vou. XVIL—No. 2. 
