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not be built, without destroying together 

 with many of the trees, the greatest part of 

 such well composed pictures. Now, if the 

 owner of such a spot, instead of making a 

 regular front and sides, M-ere to insist upon 

 having many of the windows turned to- 

 Avards those points where the objects were 

 most happily arranged, the architect would 

 be forced into the invention of a number of 

 picturesque forms and combinations, which 

 otherwise might never have occurred to him; 

 and would be oblis^ed to do what so seldom 

 has been done — accommodate his building 

 to the scenery, not make that give way to 

 his building. 



Many are the advantages, both in re- 

 spect to the outside and the inside, that 

 might result from such a method. In re- 

 gard to the first, it is scarcely possible that 

 a building formed on such a plan, and so 

 accompanied, should not be an ornament 

 to the landscape, from whatever point it 

 might be viewed. Then the blank spaces 

 that would be left where the aspect sud- 

 denly changed (which by the admirers of 



