GENERAL IMPROVEMENT. 



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placed it to be worthy of the enchanting 

 scenery with which it is surrounded. 



The Grecian edifice is best suited to pre- 

 side over the scenery designated by the term 

 Beautiful. Its regular proportions and high- 

 finished decorations are in unison with the 

 soft and polished character of all around it, 

 where elegance and gaiety hold unlimited 

 sway. 



Here also may, with propriety, be placed 

 the Manorial Building ; only I would (if cir- 

 cumstances permitted) set it deeper in its 

 woody back ground than I would the gayer 

 Grecian Mansion, and in its embellishments 

 aim at substituting cheerfulness for gaiety.* 



The Picturesque situation seems formed for 

 what has been termed a Forest Lodge ; which 

 I should describe as a building calculated 

 rather for convenience than display : low in 

 comparison of those before mentioned, irre- 

 gular in its form, and, if the ground be favour- 

 able, in its height also; no columns, no por- 

 ticos, — a porch only allowable. The pleasure 



* Somerhill, near Tonbridge, is an exception to the 

 general situation of the manorial house ; but the splendid 

 scenery it commands justifies the elevated station it 

 occupies. 



