climate are often brought into another, 

 without attending to their uses or ori- 

 ginal intentions. 



Fashions in dress, in furniture, &c. 

 are comparatively harmless; they soon 

 pass away, and become ridiculous, in pro- 

 portion to the distance of their dates. 

 Thus we laugh at the odd figures of our 

 ancestors on canvas, and wonder at the 

 bad taste of old worm-eaten furniture, 

 without reflecting, that in a few years our 

 own taste will become no less obsolete. 



But in the more lasting works of art, 

 fashion should be guided by common 

 sense, or we may perpetuate absurdities. 

 Of this kind v/as the general rage for 

 destroying those old English buildings 

 called Gothic; and for introducing the 

 Architecture of a hot country, ill adapted 

 to a cold one; as the Grecian and Ro- 

 man portico to the north front of an Eng- 

 lish house, or the Indian *varandah as a 

 shelter from the cold east winds of this 

 climate. 

 In Fashion has had its full influence on 



'* Gardening as on architecture, importing 



