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from their vicinity to another style, or from accidental circum- 

 stances in the employment of the inhabitant, are decorated with 

 excellent effect; by training honeysuckles or ivy upon the 

 walls, and also by adding another ornament not very general 

 in the other style. This is a row of houseleek placed along the 

 ridge of the roof. In a few years it becomes highly ornamen- 

 tal, and the stems of its flowers probably gave rise to a mode 

 of decorating the same part in professed ornamental cottages.— 

 [Plate V. fig. 4.] — Cottages decorated in this way may be seen 

 in several villages near Edinburgh ; but in their style there re- 

 mains ample room for the interference of gentlemen, who, with 

 little or no trouble or expence, might oblige their cottagers to 

 plant trees in their gardens, and train creeping shrubs upon 

 their walls ; which, with the removal of an appendage in front 

 peculiar to that country, and which shall be left unnamed, would 

 contribute much to the beauty of villages, and ultimately tend 

 to increase the health and comforts of the peasantry.. 



The ornaments mentioned are what would naturally be 

 added by the inhabitant himself, and what would long consti- 

 tute the sole decorations of cottages. There is another class 

 which in a certain stage of the progress of society, the builder 

 would introduce : thus, as the houses of rich individuals, or the 

 churches and cathedrals of rich bodies of men, became com- 

 mon, artisans to construct them would become more n.ume~ 



