PART III. ARCHITECTURE. ffS 



rounded by lesser irregular hills, rocks, and detached stones. 

 Nor in the ocean do we ever see an island that is not connected 

 or grouped with smaller masses and scattered fragments thrown 

 around, appearing more or less above the water. In the vege- 

 table kingdom also, we seldom see her magnificent productions 

 rise alone; thus a large tree in a natural state is always connected 

 by smaller ones, or shrubs, &c. with plants and grasses , all 

 which diverge from and group around it as their centre. Every 

 edifice should be placed amidst scenery on the same general 

 principles. One large mass should assume the principal part ; 

 and others, according to circumstances and the kind of edifice, 

 should be placed around it at different distances. On a nearer 

 approach, even appendages analogous to the small rocks in the 

 sea, the scattered stones round rocky hills, or the thorns or 

 brambles round large trees, should appear. This, let me ob- 

 serve, is a general principle applicable to every artificial pro- 

 duction, and in particular to every edifice. If we apply it in 

 the case of mansions, we shall find it accord in a pleasing man- 

 ner. The mansion itself, or some prominent part of it, may 

 form the principal mass ; the offices the secondary ones ; and 

 the last class, those balustrades, terraces, and such like archi- 

 tectural appendages, partly useful and partly produced on pur- 

 pose, as connecting masses. Let us first consider the larger 

 appendages, viz. the offices, and secondly such as are chiefly 

 ornamental, 



