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with tees and scenery : such effects are 

 likewise displayed in many of the magnifi- 

 cent villas in Italy, and in other countries 

 where our taste for laying every thing open 

 has not prevailed. Those who have no 

 opportunity of examining the real build- 

 ings, may yet, from the numerous represen- 

 tations of them, and from the various archi- 

 tectural inventions and combinations dis- 

 played in the works of painters, find exam- 

 ples of a number of different gradations, 

 from the most splendid and varied summits, 

 to the flat roof with the plain unadorned 

 parapet : all of them have their distinct 

 characters of grandeur, of variety, of rich- 

 ness, of elegance, or of simplicity ; from 

 which the judicious architect, and the ju- 

 dicious painter, will select what suits thq 

 idea they mean to impress. 



I have mentioned the flat roof with the 

 simple parapet,as between that, and the tei> 

 race walk under the same circumstances, 

 thereisaverycloseafiinity; both of them ad- 

 mittingof enrichments and variations,nearly 

 in the same style. The same comparison, 



