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FIG. 259. Doorway at Stationers' Hall, London. 



the Stationers' Hall, in London (Fig. 259), we get a still 

 later treatment, dating from the year 1800, when Robert Mylne 

 cased the building with stone. The iron standards were 

 probably devised to carry lamps, which shed enough light to 

 help incomers up the steps ; but all things are relative, and 

 doubtless, at the time, two oil lamps were considered a brilliant 

 illumination. 



Here and there in old towns are to be found two- 

 storied porches projecting from the face of a house like 

 that at Yarmouth (Fig. 260), which is the central feature of a 

 front rather more elaborately treated than usual. In this case 



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