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chiiunies on the outbidc of houses. Some, 

 however, though of less liigh authority, have 

 given designs for them in such forms, as they 

 judged would have more of variety, beauty, 

 Qr,grandeur,than those in common iise;such 

 a/s turrets, obelisks, urns, columns, vases, <Scc. 



Tliere is always danger m running coun- 

 ter to ideas of utiHty and congruity, and in 

 general to all such associations ; yet when 

 by strictly confining yourself to cuvStomary 

 form and 3ize, to the exact limits of utility, 

 and to what exclusively regards the object 

 itself, you destroy its union with the masses, 

 the decorations, and high finishing of the 

 other parts— there I think the more narrow 

 and parti^il congruity, should give place to 

 ooe of a higher and more important na- 

 ture. 



Among the diiferent shapes that have 

 been applied to chimnies, there is none more 

 inadmissible from its striking incongruity 

 than that oi" a colunm ; for the eye always 

 takes offence,when a form, which it had been 

 used to see appropriated to paiticular pur- 

 poses ^-i>d situations, is placed in a situa- 



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