Alloway Kirkyard. 



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Fig. 59. Road-side Cottage sumewhat 

 improved. 



Fig. GO. Road-side Cottage, with the ad- 

 dition of a Porch and covered Chimney 

 Tops. 



lower windows supported by brackets, a tablet over the door 

 for the name of the cottage or the builder, the chimneys with 

 plinths, a plinth to the walls, and a rise of a step, and a water 

 ffutter as before. 



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Fig. Gl . Road-side Cottage of Two 

 Stories. 



Fig. 62. 



Road-side Cottage in the English 

 Style. 



Fig. 62. shows windows, steep roofs, and chimney tops, in the 

 old English style. 



It is proper to observe that, if these figures had been in- 

 tended to represent detached cottages, they would have been 

 rendered much more ornamental by giving an architectural 

 character to the gable ends. 



August 29. — Ayr. This being Sunday no public conveyance 

 is allowed to leave the town in the daytime, and we were 

 therefore obliged either to take a postchaise, or wait till the 

 evening for the mail. We chose the latter, and spent the day 

 in Alloway kirkyard; in the grounds of D. Auld, Esq., the 

 conservator of Burns's monument ; at Newark Castle ; and in 

 walking through the town. 



Alloioay Kirkyard is extremely interesting on account of the 

 associations it calls forth connected with Burns, which circum- 

 stance has occasioned it to become quite a fashionable burying- 

 ground for the better classes of all the surrounding country. A 

 grave in Alloway Kirkyard now costs nearly as much as one 

 does in the Kensal Green Cemetery. The chapel walls here, 

 and those of tlie old church of Loggie (Vol. for 1842, p. 594), 

 show how much depends on the bell turret and the surrounding 



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