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merly adorned temples, and porticos, have 

 been collefted, and brought to prop the limbs 

 of this vaft tree. Tho the pifturefque eye 

 is not fond of thefe adventitious fupports, and 

 would rather fee the boughs bending to the 

 ground under their own weight; yet if they 

 are proper any where, they are proper in 

 fuch a fituation as this ; where the tree fills 

 the whole area of a market-place with it's 

 extended boughs ; and is connected with the 

 houfes on every fide by the pillars, which 



fupport them. Some fuch idea as this very 



probably gave birth to that beautiful form in 

 Gothic architecture, of a circular room, whofe 

 dome is fupported by a fingle column, rifmg 

 from the center, and ramifying over the roof. 

 We have two or three fuch appendages of 

 cathedrals in England, under the name of 

 chapter-houfes. The moft beautiful I know, 

 is at Salifbury, which I fcruple not to call 

 one of the moft pleafmg ideas in architecture. 

 The plane at Cos is greatly revered by all 

 the inhabitants of the city. Much of their 

 public bufmefs is tranfafted in the market- 

 place. There too they hold their little focial 

 meetings; and we may eafily conceive the 

 luxury, in fuch a climate, of a grand leafy 

 Canopy, to Ikreen them from the fervour of 



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