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and therefore, by his own restriction, not proper 

 objects of comparison, or, as far as the plans are 

 similar, the Roman temple is, by his own ac- 

 count, the larger. 



I have hitherto endeavoured to shew, that 

 Mr. Knight's charges are not well fouuded: 

 one mistake however, I must acknowledge. 

 I had chosen to imagine from the elegant 

 character of the temple at Tivoli, that the 

 atone of which it was built must have accorded 

 with it : but 1 can have no doubt that the material 

 employed, was the common rough stone of the 

 country : and the natural inference, vvhich every 

 one must draw from IMr. Knight's account of it 

 is, that the colour and surface of the temple must 

 always have been the exact reverse of what I had 

 supposed: for he says, '^ the colour is that of the 

 rough Tiburtine stone, which never could have 

 been any other than a dingy brown" and that 



'* so far from being smooth, it is 



built of the most rugged, porous, unequal stone, 

 ever employed in a highly wrought edifice." 1 

 have always been fully sensible of the advantages 

 1 should have received, hi having my errors cor- 

 rected, while only in manuscript, by such a friend 

 as Mr. Knight, instead of having them sought for 

 and attacked, after they had appeared in print, by 

 such an adversary; on the present occasion, how- 

 ever, 1 am not sure whetlier I may not derive 

 more advantage from this public hostile attack. 



