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the reason probably is, their being built at different times, or 

 the two styles being impure, as we see in many Italian designs, 

 and also in several houses in England. Allerton is partly in the 

 Gothic and partly in the Grecian style ; which happened from 

 some alterations that were begun several years ago and never 

 finished. Both the styles in that building are impure, and 

 would not have been strikingly incongruous even when first 

 built ; now the whole edifice is so covered with lichens, that it 

 presents one harmonious and singular mass ; which seen from 

 one view appears nearly in the Grecian style, and from another 

 nearly in the quadrangular Gothic manner. 



SECT. II. OF BLENDING OR COMPOUNDING THE GRECIAN 

 AND GOTHIC IN THE SAME MASS. 



To unite in the same mass forms so opposite as those which 

 characterise Grecian and Gothic architecture, may justly be 

 thought so ridiculous as never to have been attempted. Win- 

 dows, or openings, are the most striking parts in the walls of 

 buildings. They are all for the same use ; and we are led to 

 imagine, from the productions of nature, that they should in 

 the same building be all of the like figure. At any rate, we are 

 sure that when uniformity of figure is deviated from, it is ex- 



