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Bathing-house and pool 
haps as charming as the one pictured in the accompanying 
photograph, or it may be an elaborate group of buildings 
illustrated in the plan and section. 
This is a highly ornate structure, designed on quite an 
elaborate scale and built with some regard to grandeur of 
effect. The drawings reproduce a design made by Mr. 
William De Vos, of Ghent, the quaint old Flemish city of 
Belgium, and are typically Continental in their general lay- 
out and arrangement. It is, in brief, a large open space, 
surrounded by a gallery or promenade, with a flooring tiled 
or grassed, as may be desired. ‘The gallery, supported by 
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Ionic columns, is covered to afford protection from wind 
and rain. There are three dressing-rooms on each side—on 
one, for men, on the other, for women. ‘The outer wall is 
carried up high enough to shut out the view from without, 
but sufficient space is left above it to permit free access 
of air. 
The great semicircular seat with which this sumptuous 
bath is closed is sometimes found in other forms as a high 
ornamental adjunct of the swimming-pool. The pergola of 
one of the illustrations is thoroughly charming in every way, 
and is a really noble ornament of the pool that lies below it. 
A swimming-pool with pergola 
