PART III. 



ARCHITECTURE, 



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CHAPTER III. 



OF THE HABITATIONS OF THE WEALTHY AND NOBLE, 



These may be divided into two kinds; such as are built in 

 towns and cities, and such as are suited to the country. The 

 former require comparatively little consideration; and as they 

 do not generally come under the practice of a rural designer, 

 they must pass here unnoticed. The latter includes a number 

 of styles and conveniencies suitable for all ranks, and combined 

 under various designations, from the ornamented cottage to 

 the baronial castle and royal palace. To enumerate the ge- 

 neral names of these varieties is easy ; but to detail the different 

 accommodations introduced into each would be tedious, and 

 could not be of half the service, either to the gentleman or ar- 

 chitect, that visiting and examining a few of the best laid-out 

 houses will be. The artist will find many good and numerous 

 bad ground-plans in books ; from both of which he may derive 

 advantage, by imitating the excellencies of the one, and avoid- 

 ing the errors of the other. But if he consult the situation in 

 which he is to build, he will seldom be able to transfer to it 

 any plan from a book or a house already executed. This mode 



