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ideas, may have made some of tbe parts, 

 especially in the summit, more broken or 

 more massive than Avas necessary for the 

 purpose he intended : but his defects should 

 be corrected, like those of Michael Angelo, 

 by a Raphael in architecture, not by a 

 Carlo Marat ; and even then, though the 

 style would be purer, and altogether more 

 excellent, it might lose something of original 

 character ; and of that, perhaps, insepara- 

 ble mixture of excellencies and blemishes, 

 which sometimes appear to belong to each 

 other, and to strengthen the general effect. 

 One of the greatest difficulties with re- 

 spect to the summits of our houses, certainly 

 arises from the chimnies ; whicli though 

 not very generally attended to in point of 

 outward form, very materially affect tlie 

 outline of all houses from the highest to the 

 lowest. In . our Jiorthern climate every 

 house on a large scale must have ^ num" 

 ber of chimnies ; and in order to answer 

 the purpose for which they are made, they 

 must be higher than the o^eneral level of the 

 summit : if, therefore, what I have said on 



