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and a great variety of other forms, differing 

 in a number of circumstances, and all of 

 them with some marked characteristic dis- 

 tinction, are to be found both in pictures 

 and in real buildings ; and I have often had 

 occasion to observe the amusing effect of 

 that diversity in villages, and on the other 

 hand, the opposite effect of monotony of the 

 worst kind. One instance of the latter I men- 

 tion with regret, as the houses were in a great 

 measure either rebuilt or repaired by the 

 gentleman who lives within a short distance 

 of the place, and who, in the two most es- 

 sential points of neatness and comfort, has 

 great reason to be proud of what he has 

 done: but the chimnies are all single, tall, 

 and thin ; and I could not help lamenting 

 that an undertaking, which in other re^ 

 spects deserved so much praise, should have 

 produced the most wretched meagre, outline 

 I ever beheld. It is the more provokr- 

 ing, as the village is beautifully backed with 

 trees, which serve to shew with periect dis- 

 tinctness, all these long detached tubes. 

 The opposite extreme in some of the old 



