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instance is 90 feet long. The busts of Napoleon and of the members of his 
family are also placed there. 
C. Belgium and Holland. 
A league and a half from Brussels, near the canal to Malines, is the 
pleasure palace of Laeken, erected in 1782 after the designs of Montemayor, 
but the interior was executed by Payen. /P/. 51, fig. 6, shows the 
ground plan, pl. 53, fig. 5, the front elevation. The facade is in the French 
style, and has in the centre a portico of four Ionic columns placed at dis- 
tances of three and a half diameters, and on the corners pavilions with 
pilasters. The round hall in the rear of the vestibule is surrounded with 
twelve Corinthian columns, and covered with a dome, and is considered to 
be a structure of great architectonic value. 
Tae Roya Resipence In AMSTERDAM, built by Jacob Van Campen, born in 
Harlaem (d. 1658), is without question the most beautiful building in Holland. 
The grandeur of its masses, the regularity of its plan, the beauty of its con- 
struction, the richness of its decoration, all combine to make it one of the finest 
creations of modern architecture. PU. 55, fig. 4, gives the elevation, fig. 5 
the ground plan of the ground story, and jig. 6 that of the second and third 
stories. The dome, which is wanting in the elevation, is represented to the 
right, the line A A being that of its connexion with the clock tower. The 
building stands upon 13,659 piles driven into the morass, and forms a large 
rectangle of 282 feet in length and 222 feet in breadth. The plan is im- 
posing, the interior arrangement judicious, the communications convenient 
and easy, and all combined with taste and skill. The height of the facade 
is 116 feet. Upon a large substructure, forming a very subordinate story, 
with seven low entrances, there are two tiers of pilasters, the upper belonging 
to the composite, the lower to the Corinthian order. They are 36 feet high, 
each reaching through a story and an intersole. The facade has three pro- 
jections, the middle one being both broader and deeper than those at the 
ends. This middle projection has a gable with a beautiful bas-relief repre- 
senting the power of Amsterdam, and the acroteria of the gable support 
bronze statues twelve feet high. 
D. Great Britain. 
The castles and palaces of England are for the greater part of the medi- 
geval style, which was widely employed for secular buildings after it had 
yielded in other countries to the Italian, and it is still much used. Next to 
that we find the manner of Palladio, and especially in country seats, which 
are often of very great extent. Such, for instance, is the country seat of the 
Duke of Argyle in Dumbarton county in Scotland, whose ground plan 
( pl. 51, fég. '7) is much like the castle at Laeken, and whose fagade is almost 
precisely the same. 
8. THmatres, 
A considerable degree of luxury has always prevailed in the building of 
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