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chimnies on the outside of houses. Some* 

 however, though of less high authority, have 

 given designs for them in such forms, as they 

 judged would have more of variety, beauty, 

 or grandeur, than those in common use; such 

 as turrets, obelisks, urns, columns, vases, &c* 

 There is always danger in running coun- 

 ter to ideas of utility and congruity, and in 

 general to all such associations ; yet when 

 by strictly confining yourself to customary 

 form and size, to the exact limits of utility* 

 and to what exclusively regards the object 

 itself, you destroy its union with the masses, 

 the decorations, and high finishing of the 

 other parts — there I think the more narrow 

 and partial congruity, should give place to 

 one of a higher and more important na- 

 ture. 



Among the different shapes that have 

 been applied to chimnies, there is none more 

 inadmissible from its striking incongruity 

 than that of a column ; for the eye always 

 takes offence, when a form,which it had been 

 used to see appropriated to particular pur- 

 poses and situations, is placed in a situa- 



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