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fowcr of rough masonry twenty-eight feet in dia^ 

 meter," and which defied every thing short of an 

 earthquake— was built of rubble! Whether Air. 

 Knight was acquainted with this circumstance i 

 do not know : but the expression of " a tower of 

 rough masonry," seems happily chosen, as it is 

 strongly opposed, to the even surface of which I 

 had spoken, yet gives no intimation of the want of 

 massiness. The discovery of the rubble stone, 

 and of die cement with which it was covered, acts 

 as a two-edged sword ; and cuts to pieces at one 

 stroke, all that has been said of the remarkable 

 massiness and firm compact construction of the 

 most massy part of the building, and also of the 

 roughness and dinginess of its general appearance. 

 I will now end this long note, which I fear 

 must have tried the patience of those readers, who 

 may have had the perseverance to go through with 

 it : but so strong a censure as that of Mr. Kni^^ht, 

 and so fully detailed, seemed to require a full and 

 distinct answer. 1 rather hope I have shewn, 

 that amftng the numerous errors of which I have 

 been accused, one only can fairly be laid to my 

 charge, and thatj. solely an error in point of fact, 

 not of principle, or of judgment: but, on tlie 

 contrary, that the inference to be drawn from the 

 error, is strongly in favour of the principle and of 

 its application. X trust it has likewise been 

 shewn, that the rest of the strictures are written 

 in direct opposition to the manifest intention and 

 spirit of the part of my Essay, which has been so 



