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ings by the help of some imposing mass, 

 that fixed upon itself the principal atten- 

 tion. This last method is capable of fre- 

 quent application : as for instance, when a 

 small hamlet or some farm buildings are in 

 an interesting situation, where the person 

 from whose place they are in view, would 

 wish for something more attractive. It is 

 true, that a rich person to whom the whole 

 belonged, might pull them all down, and 

 place in their room a tower, a temple, or 

 some ornamental building : but, besides 

 that there is something unpleasant, in de- 

 stroying for the sake of mere ornament the 

 marks of industry and habitation, such 

 buildings of parade have too frequently a 

 staring, unconnected, ostentatious appear-* 

 ance. Should he, however, choose to pre- 

 serve the look of a farm or hamlet, but wish, 

 at the same time, to improve the general 

 mass, any building of a good form, rising 

 higher than the rest from amidst them, 

 would probably answer that purpose, and 

 serve at once both to vary and unite the 



