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to deform and disgrace it, cannot be too 

 carefully avoided. 



As the great defect of chimnies in gene- 

 ral, is that of being meagre and detached, 

 every method of correcting that defect by 

 means of pleasing, yet not incongruous 

 forms, deserves the attention of an architect. 

 I have sometimes seen in Italian architecture 

 chimnies connected together by arches ; and 

 in many of the old mansions of Gothic and of 

 mixed architecture, two or three chimnies 

 are joined together inone cluster, with open- 

 ings between them, but connected at top : 

 sometimes they are on the same line ; at 

 other times turned to different points; fre- 

 quently they are embellished with rich cor- 

 nices, with spiral ribs, and other decora- 

 tions. These old clustering chimnies, in 

 addition to their other merits, have that of 

 not assuming any other character; and al- 

 though the Same style will not suit the purer 

 character of Grecian architecture, yet many 

 of the circumstances on which the pictu- 

 resque effect of such chimnies depends, are 

 not unworthy of notice ; from their union 



