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the eye soon becomes weary , for though 

 a natural wall of such solidity and magni- 

 tude must always be a grand object, it is 

 still a wall. 



But where certain bold projections are 

 detached from the principal body of rock ; 

 where in some places, they rise higher than 

 the general summit, and in others, seem a 

 powerful buttress to the lower part, — the 

 eye is forcibly struck with the grandeur of 

 such detached masses, and occupied with the 

 variety of their form, and of their light and 

 shadow. Such is the effect and the cha- 

 racter of many of the ancient castles. 



On the other hand, it no less frequently 

 happens, that the lower parts of rocks are 

 varied ir shape, and boldly relieved, while 

 their summit describes one uniform line ; 

 the projections then lose their consequence 

 when seen from afar, especially in a front 

 view, and the eye is more distinctly occu- 

 pied with the line of the summit. This is 

 the case with many of those buildings, which 

 are executed in what is called Grecian, or 

 Italian architecture ; when viewed at a dis- 



