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with fees and scenery : such effects arc 

 likewise displayed in many of the niagum- 

 cent villas in Italy, and in other countries 

 v/here our taste for laynig every tliing open 

 has not prevailed. Those who have no 

 opportunity of examining the real build- 

 ings, may yet, from the numerous I'epresen- 

 tations of them, and from the various archi- 

 tectural inventions and combinations dis- 

 played in the works of painters, find exam-, 

 pies of a number of different gradations, 

 from* the mostsplendid and varied summits, 

 to the flat roof with the plain unadorned 

 parapet : all of them have their distinct 

 characters of grandeur, of variety, of rich- 

 ness, of elegance, or of simplicity ; from 

 >yhich the judicious architect, and the ju^ 

 dicious painter, will select what suits the 

 idea they mean to impress. 



J have mentioned the flat roof with the 

 simple parapet, asbetween that, and the ter^ 

 vace -vyalk under the same circumstances, 

 thereisaverycloseafhnity; both of them ad- 

 iTiitting of enrichments and variations, nearly 

 \n the same style. The same comparisoiTj 



