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produce a variety, which one Ihoulci n'ever expect in fo 

 aduft a region. 



What I have obfe-rved of the architecture of Berlin 

 for the mo ft part holds equally good of Potfdam ; the 

 fiyle is not fufiiciently grand and noble-; it is overloaded 

 with ornament ; the piers between the windows are too 

 narrow; the materials are good for nothing; the plaif- 

 ter facings and the decorations in* ftucco fall prefently 

 down, and immediately convince the beholder, that 

 thefe houfes are not built to laft for ever. Otherwife 

 there is far more of an entire whole to be feen at Potf- 

 dam than at Berlin. There are not fo many ehafms 

 between the hand fo me buildings ; the town is but fmali; 

 therefore it is almoft filled already with new houfes; 

 they are indeed ftill too much Scattered, but the inter- 

 faces occupied by the old houfes are not fo gwfe. We 

 fee here feveral whole ftreets entirely finifhed, with 

 edifices that are really elegant, and more like palaces 

 than even thofe in great Berlin. The market-place, 

 where Hands the catholic church in the i tali an tafte, 

 and which has an obelifk in the centre, has a very re- 

 fpe (Stable appearance, though it is quite irregular 

 Here ftands too the town-houfe; the h&hdfomeft and 

 nobleft ftructure in all Potfdam. The paft-ofiice is 

 likewife remarkable for being; built in a 'correct ftyle. 

 Potfdam would have a much better look, if it had not 

 the fame impropriety as that I have already taken notice 

 of at Berlin ; namely, that a great variety of t a fees is 

 too confpicuous. In a ftreet over againft the orphan- 

 houfe Hands a building that looks like a caftle ; but, 

 being covered with a plaifter coloured in tawdry blotches 

 «f white and red, and being moreover furcharged 

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