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emulating the works of art, if indeed art has not in 

 this instance borrowed from Nature. They who have 

 amused themselves in tracing the origin of the Co- 

 rinthian capital to the casual coincidence of a plant 

 and a basket, will find even less difficulty in deducing 

 from the natural wasting of sandstones, those rustic 

 basements which have never yet equalled it in variety 

 and artifice of design. 



