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without exterior ventilation or light. Such conveniences should, as much as 

 possible, be placed in a sort of loggia, so as that not only their windows but 

 doors might open to the free air. The loggia, which of course should only be 

 entered from some passage or lobby, might be contrived to shut in with glass 

 or Venetian blinds in severe weather; or it might have the appearance ex- 

 teriorly of a large window. The second objection is the projection made 

 for the chimneys in the rooms {d e), which, being common in brick cottages, 

 always conveys something of vulgarity and weakness or meanness to buildings 

 of a higher character. We imagine, for example, on looking at the eleva- 

 tion {Jig. 109.), that, if the walls had been sufficiently thick, the chimney- 



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flues would have been carried up in them, instead of in a stack or portion 

 of wall of an extra-thickness, built on purpose to contain them. With 

 this exception we consider the elevation as truly beautiful. The three 

 central windows over the three windows of the same kind placed farther 

 apart attract the eye to the centre, and retain it there in admiration, while 

 the two smaller windows over the verandas in the wings have a similar 

 effect in their way. The building is thus a well-defined whole, composed of 

 three parts, separately wholes also and well defined. The colonnade and 

 balustrade of the loggia harmonise with the centre pediment, as the verandas 

 do with the pavilion roofs. Had the chimneys been in the walls instead of 

 outside of them, it would have been perfect in its kind. 



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