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exposure, equally with a bleak and dreary one is to be 

 avoided. The design of a house is protection to its inmates, 

 and if there be no adequate shelter from the elements, it 

 fails in its purpose. It should be tastefully built, as this need 

 not materially increase the expense, while it adds a pleasant 

 feature to the . farm. It ought to occupy a position easily 



accessible to the other buildings and the fields, and yet be 

 within convenient distance of the highway. It is desirable 

 to have it so far removed as to admit of a light screen of 

 trees, and nature will thus add an ornament arid protection 

 in the surrounding foliage, which no skill of the architect 

 can equal. .>< , 



Fio. 89. 

 Note. For cuts 84, 85, 89 and 91, the author is indebted to A J. Downing, Esq 



