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fpirit below a good Defigner, fet perching 

 upon a little Pedeftal ^ one like a Citizen 3 

 a fecond with a Pike in his Hand, like a 

 Foot-Soldier 5 and the third upon dry Land 

 with a Trident, like a Cart-filler. Thefe 

 are certainly great Diminutions to the Po- 

 litenefs of the Statuary, as they are to the 

 Noble Perfonages they hieroglyphically re- 

 prefent. 



Others, perhaps, err in another refped, by 

 placing fan as a Tutelar God in the Flower- 

 Garden, whijft Ceres and flora are the filent 

 Inhabitants of Woods and Groves. To this 

 may be often join'd an Impropriety in the 

 Gellure and Habiliments of thefe Gods, which 

 ought to diifer, as the Adions they are repre- 

 fenting do: Neptune in the Management of 

 his Sea^ Affairs, embracing Amphitrite 3 and 

 Mars in his Armorial Array in his Amour 

 With Ve?ms^ are fuch Incongruities as the 

 Statuary fliould always avoid : Since one 

 would be as ufelefs and troublefome a Com- 

 panion in the guiding and taming his Sear 

 Horfes, as the Warlike Habiliments of the 

 other would be in the Embraces of a Fair 

 Lady. 



But to return : Jupiter and Mars fhould pof- 

 fefs the largeft Open Centres and Lawns of a 

 grand Defign, elevated upon Pedeftal Colum- 

 nial, and other Architedonical Works, ac- 

 cording to the Model of the beft Defigner, 

 with their immediate Servants and Vaffels 



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