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arid, because the form of the whole was altered, 

 they called the first variation, where the division 

 was into three, the laurel, and the other, where 

 it was into five, the olive leaf. In both, the 

 proper form and beauty of the leaf are lost : it 

 is neither noble nor in nature ; it becomes a 

 monstrous production of ignorant art: the whole 

 is a body of acanthus leaf bearing olive or laurel 

 leaves at its tops and sides. 



The leaves on the capitals of the columns in 

 the temple of Vesta, at Rome, are of the laurel 

 kind ; those of the Basilic of Antonine, of the 

 olive ; and there are many more instances, need- 

 less to be recounted here, both of one and the 

 other division. In the temple of Vesta, at 

 Tivoli, we see the true Acanthus. Nothing 

 reflects more upon the taste of architecture, in 

 that time of its eminent glory, so much as this 

 insult upon nature: the preferring, to her great 

 simplicity, the littleness of art. 



SINGULAR DEXTERITY OF A GOAT. 



We met (says Dr. Clarke) an Arab, with a 

 Goat, which he led about the country to exhibit, 

 in order to gain a livelihood for itself and its 



