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taste ; because they are inevitably seen by every body, and the latter when 

 we are young and open to impressions. "We should be glad if some of our 

 architectural readers would send us perspective views or isometrical eleva- 

 tions of this description of buildings, and in the mean time we shall make 

 the commencement by giving a view of a toll-house lately erected at 

 Edgeware. {fig. 76.) On the summit of the cupola of this house there was 



originally a lamp with three burners and three separate reflectors. Two of 

 the reflectors directed the light along the road in opposite directions, to 

 show what might be coming or departing on either hand ; the third reflector 

 threw the light directly across the road, and down on the gate, for the pur- 

 poses of the gate-keeper and those passing through. After this light had 

 remained between two and three years it was taken down, as being too 

 brilliant, and as having frightened some horses ; but it surely might have 

 been softened so as to be retained. Where there are two gates, a lamp- 

 post is very properly placed between them, as is now done at Edgeware, 

 which answers all the purposes of the cupola and triple lamp formerly there. 

 Isometrical (isos equal, and metron, measure) Perspective. — As some of 

 our young readers may not clearly understand what is meant by this term, 

 and as that description of perspective is particularly adapted for drawing 

 plans of kitchen-gardens, we give the following extract from WaistelVs De- 

 signs for Agricultural Buildings : — " Isometrical perspective is a term given 

 recently by Professor Farish of Cambridge, to a projection made in rays 

 parallel to the diagonal of a cube upon a plane perpendicular thereto. This 

 is a comprehensive and useful method of exhibiting the different parts of a 

 homestead, and any person moderately acquainted with drawing, if they 

 make the attempt, will find it extremely easy to perform ; nothing more 

 being required than to divide a circle into six equal parts, which may be 

 done with the radius ; and draw the hexagon and three radii, one radius to 

 every other angle, to represent a cube. (fig. 77 .) All the vertical or plumb 

 lines in any design are then to be drawn parallel to a b ; all those in the 

 direction, say north and south, parallel to a c ; and all those at right angles 

 or perpendicular to the last, or in the direction east and west, parallel to 

 ad; and the several heights, lengths, and breadths, being taken from a 

 scale of equal parts, and set off", and lines drawn in these three directions, 

 the projection is produced. The position of any point, or the direction of 

 any other fine, may be found, by finding where the first would fall upon any 

 plane parallel to either of the three sides of the cube, and where the latter, 

 if produced, would cross any line in the three directions." (Designs, fyc, 

 p. 91.) 



