PART III. ARCHITECTURE. l6j 



scenery of Cumberland and Westmoreland. There are two 

 cases only when the colour of the stone, if faint, may be in a 

 great measure dispensed with, though different from the soil. 

 The first is, in a country where no rocks appear for some distance 

 around the edifice ; the other is, in towns where rocks may ap- 

 pear, but where it is more economical to use a species which, 

 though at a greater distance, or concealed from the eye under 

 ground, is yet easier wrought than the other. In small villages, 

 however, this is not allowable ; as may be exemplified, by re- 

 ferring to the bad effect of Matlock bath, built of white stone, 

 though placed among red rocks ; and the good effect of Cul- 

 ross, built of the yellow rock on which it is founded, and which 

 appears in large perpendicular masses at one end of the town.. 



Though the colours of edifices were made exactly the same 

 as the ground on which they stand, or the roads which lead to 

 them, the difference in the position of the materials, by reflect- 

 ing the light in opposite ways, will always make a sufficient 

 contrast between them . When the rock is red, black, or of any 

 dark colour, beautiful architecture (that is, either Grecian or 

 Gothic buildings, depending upon smoothness and gradation of 

 light and shade) should not be attempted. Nature here is sug- 

 gesting a variety, where the effect is produced by strong pro- 

 jections and bold parts, which particularly accord with the 

 principle of fitness and economy ; as dark coloured stones are 



