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were this true, yet there are many build- 

 ings highly interesting to all who have 

 united the study of art with that of nature, 

 in which beauty and grandeur are equally 

 out of the question; such as hovels, cot- 

 tages, mills, insides of old barns, stables, 

 &c. whenever they have any marked 

 and peculiar effect of form, tint, or light 

 and shadow. In mills particularly, such is 

 the extreme intricacy of. the wheels and 

 the wood work ; such the singular variety 

 of forms and of lights and shadows, of mos- 

 ses and weather stains from the constant 

 moisture, of plants springing from the rough 

 joints of the stones; such the assemblage 

 of every thing which most conduces to 

 picturesqueness, that even without the ad- 

 dition of water, an old mill has the great- 

 est charm for a painter. 



It is owing to the same causes, that a 

 building with scaffolding has often a more 

 picturesque appearance, than the building *• 

 itself when the scaffolding is taken away;- 

 that old, mossy, rough-hewn park pales of 

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