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ofi'er anytliint; woitliy to serve as a model; while modern imitations ol 

 them merely "give iis the nncontlmess of taste they display, without any 

 of the rounterhalancing reconmiendation they possess. By no pos- 

 sibility can any reminiscences of other days he made to attach to a 

 "spick-and-span " new edifice, any more than a lineage from the con- 

 quest can be bestowed upon a new-made city knight, who perhaps 

 does not know, or does not care to know, who was his grandfather. 



What may be venerable in an old country church either for the his- 

 torical evidence it att'ords, or as belonging to the most ancient part of 

 tlie structure, may possibly become barbarously mean when copied in 

 a modern one. Few things are more disgusting in architecture than 

 the atl'ectution of simplicity, — than a spruce, pert-looking ediKce, imper- 

 tinently aping the unassuming modesty and humility of a primitive 

 place of devotion. 



ON CHALK EXCAVATIONS. 



BY SAMUEL HUGHES, C.E. 



Fig. 1. Elevation nf BriJi^e — Seetinn of Rriilge. 



Fig. 2 Finn of Abiitnienf 



Fig 3 Section of Abutment tlirough A to B. 





Fig. 4. Section of Cutting. 



Fig .5 Enlarged Section of Coping Top ol tlie Benches. 



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r[The interior lines sbow the 83'Stem proposed by Mr. Rastrlck, and tlie exterii 

 shows the system of cutting and bencliini? proposed by Mr Gibbs.] 



