ON l in: STYLE OF HOI SE BES1 UDAPTED TO PARI l< I LAB 



-I l CATIONS 



Ajs the Btyle of a house should be, in a great measure, adapted to the scenery 

 of its locality, I will give a short description of the principal kinds of scenery, 

 suggesting at the same time the kind of house which I consider 1» b1 suited to 

 each. 



There arc generally reckoned to he five principal kinds of Bcenery, 



The Grand; the Romantic; the Picturesque; the Beautiful; and the 

 Rural. 



Grand Scenery is distinguished by bold, striking, and majestic features 

 of vast extent Mountains, for instance, which swell boldly out; or rocks 

 which rear aloft their gigantic heads, or Btretch far into the ocean, or into the 

 still smooth lake, which reflects back the dark shadows of overhanging woods. 

 Examples of the Grand are generally to be found in lake districts, in West- 

 moreland, Cumberland, &c. A mansion to preside over such Bcenery should 

 cither he Italian. ( inline, or Castellated : but it' the undulations of ground an 

 abrupt immediately in connection with the site for the erection, either the 

 ('a>tdlated or the Gothic style would be the most suitable. 



Eomantic Scenery is where we find nature in her wildest and most 

 changeful mood: ever varying in bold and sudden contrasts, such as pre- 

 . ipitous and shelfy rocks, the impetuous cataract, the rapid river, the yawning 

 cavern, the root-bound and craggj steep, tangled woods and wild and varied 

 undergrowths, as may be seen at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, and Dovedale, in 

 Derbyshire. To such scenery the Elizabethan, or Castellated, style would be 

 suitable. 



Picturesque Scenery is nature in her simplest and most artless form — hill, 

 dale, brook, thicket; the stunted oak and the bramble bush; the ash. the 

 i Im, the sycamore, and their climbing parasites ; and whins, and thorns, and 



