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also, which has been drawn between the rais- 

 ed terrace with its parapet, and a gravel 

 walk with the ground sloping from it, 

 may, with equal propriety, be made be- 

 tween the flat summit of a house, whether 

 plain or decorated, and the sloping roof.* 

 The summit of a house may, indeed, from 

 many points, be considered as an elevated 

 architectural fore-ground, where objects, 

 though distant from the eye, are strongly 

 marked from their situation and character; 

 and the same causes which produce gran- 

 deur and variety in the terrace below the 

 eye, will produce them above it : but the 

 resemblance will be more apparent, if we 

 suppose the spectator to be on a height, so 

 that the summit really becomes a fore-ground 

 below the eye to the more distant objects. 

 Whatever is sloping, has, generally speak- 

 ing, less of grandeur, than what is abrupt 

 or perpendicular ; what has a thin edge, 

 than what is broad and projecting ; what 

 js slight and fragile, than what is strong and 



* Esaay on the Decorations, &c. 



