PART III. ARCHITECTURE. HI 



membered with regret ; nor would it be forgotten as a vacuum 

 in time in which no new ideas were acquired, nor any action 

 performed, that could afford pleasure in the remembrance.. 



SECT, IV. OF IMPROVED AND ORNAMENTAL COTTAGES. 



From all that has been said it will appear, that I recommend 

 no particular form or mode of construction, either for gentle- 

 men to adopt when they erect houses for their labourers, or for 

 such as chuse to build for their own use, what is called an orna- 

 mented cottage. The general principles and forms of parts 

 which pervade the English style are what I particularly wish to 

 recommend wherever an ornamented cottage is to be produced 

 in either country. Where common use and neatness are the 

 objects in view, an improvement upon the style of the country, 

 whatever that may be, will generally be best, and may easily 

 be effected everywhere by such as attend to the foregoing re- 

 marks. The materials in Scotland are ill suited to the English 

 style, if copied exactly ; for rubble work could not be formed 

 into Gothic chimnies without considerable expence; nor could 

 the windows with propriety be made low and broad, where they 

 are to be covered with stones, and where the frame is to be 

 constructed in the manner of the country. To place labels 

 over these windows would be inconsistent with economy and 



