CONCIIOLOGY. 



many useful hints the ingenious artist or painter might derive; 

 from them. The forms are generally mathematical, by 

 "which circumstance the study of their shape would adapt 

 his mind to the principles of perspective ; and the harmony 

 of the colours would unfold to his thoughts the scientific 

 principles of Titian and Corregio : The forms of some of 

 the Cerithiums and Terebras would serve admirably to 

 convey to his fancy the most pleasing designs for obelisks 

 or pyramids. Thus the study of Natural History and of 

 the useful Arts, might be made subservient to each other, and 

 a general taste predominate, founded only upon the true and 

 unchangeable principles of Nature. 



The idea of the Ionic capital seems to have been first 

 derived from the examination of the fossil Cornuammonis, 

 which is very common in Greece, and others might very 

 probably be adopted equally ornamental and useful, in the 

 various arts of human invention, 



