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ence between those tints which painters 

 admire and mere dirtiness of colour, so there 

 is as essential a difference between what is 

 simple and what is bald. Baldness of effect, 

 in all Objects arises from want of shadow ; 

 'but tnany circumstances that produce 

 depth df shadow, such as -projecting roetfs, 

 ptirches, windows that are recessed, are per- 

 fectly consistent with simplicity and uni- 

 formity. 



The forms of cnimnies are not less to be 

 attended to in village-nouses, than in those 

 "on a larger scale ; and m some *espeets J still 

 more so : for although any poverty of form 

 "gives greater offence when mixed with the 

 'beauty and splendour of architecture, yet, 

 •in low houses, the good or bad effect of 

 cnimnies is more immediately' striking, as 

 they are nearer the- eye, and larger in 'pro- 

 portion to the building. In old village^- 

 "Houses they have often the same pictu- 

 resque character, and many of the same 

 decorations, with those of the ancient man- 

 sions already described; and, indeed, seem 

 to have been copied from them. These, 



