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window, which is introduced on the first or principal floor, 

 in most apartments of much size or importance, is a 

 window of treble or quadruple the common size, projecting 

 from the main body of the room in a semi-octagonal or 

 hexagonal form, thereby affording more space in the 

 apartment, from the floor to the ceiling, as well as giving 

 an abundance of light, and a fine prospect in any favorite 

 direction. This, while it has a grander effect than several 

 windows of moderate size, gives a variety of form and 

 outline to the different apartments, that can never be so 

 well attained when the windows are mere openings cut in 

 the solid walls. The oriel-window is very similar to the 

 bay-window, but projecting in a similar manner from the 

 upper story, supported on corbelled mouldings. These 

 windows are not only elegant in the interior, but by 

 standing out from the face of the walls, they prevent any- 

 thing like too great a formality externally, and bestow a 

 pleasing variety on the different fronts of the building. 



The sky outline of a villa in the Tudor Gothic style, is 

 highly picturesque. It is made up of many fine features. 

 The pointed gables, with their finials, are among the most 

 striking, and the neat parapet wall, either covered with a 

 moulded coping, or, perhaps, diversified with battlements ; 

 the latter not so massive as in the castellated style, but 

 evidently intended for ornament only. The roof line is 

 often varied by the ornamented gablet of a dormer window, 

 rising here and there, and adding to the quaintness of the 

 whole. We must not forget, above all, the highly enriched 

 chimney shaft, which, in the English examples, is made of 

 fancifully moulded bricks, and is carried up in clusters 

 some distance above the roof How much more pleasing 

 for a dwelling must be the outline of such a building, than 



