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remark proceeds from the frequent in- 

 stances of good houses built without any 

 taste, and attempts to embellish scenery 

 b^ ornamental buildings that are totally 

 incongruous to their respective situations. 

 The country carpenter or bricklayer, or 

 even the London builder, is accustomed to 

 consider detached parts ; the architect, on 

 the contrary, considers the whole. There 

 is some degree of merit in building good 

 rooms; there is more in connecting these 

 rooms together: but the architect alone 

 can add to these an outside according to 

 the established rules of art; and where 

 these rules are grossly violated, the eye of 

 taste will instantly be offended, although 

 it may not always be able to explain the 

 cause of its disgust. 



To my profession peculiarly belongs External 



, , /. 1 -^ ^ r Effect of 



the external part or architecture, or a Building. 



' I am happy to defend my predecessor, as well as 

 rtiyself, from tlie imputation of blending architecture 

 with gardening, by the following extract of a letter from 

 the celebrated author of the English Garden; whose 

 advice (I am sorry to say) did not prevail. 



'' I have lately had some correspondence with Mr. 



