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ifet ings in the castellated 
almost every thing to 
yl style, without sacrificing 
intended as a shelter to 
those engaged in defend- 
ing the building against 
assaults. Modern build- 
strength, as was once 
[Fig. 49. The Castellated mode.] 
necessary, preserve the general character of the ancient 
castle, while they combine with it almost every modern 
luxury. In their exteriors, we perceive strong and massive 
octagonal or circular towers, rising boldly, with corbelled 
or projecting cornices, above the ordinary level of the 
building. The windows are either pointed or square-headed, 
or perhaps a mixture of both. The porch rises into a turret- 
ed and embattled gateway, and all the offices and out-build- 
ings connected with the main edifice, are constructed in a 
style corresponding to that exhibited in the main body of the 
building. The whole is placed on a distinct and firm ter- 
race of stone, and the expression of the edifice is that of 
strength and security. 
This mode of building is evidently of too ambitious and 
expensive a kind, for a republic, where landed estates are not 
secured by entail, but divided, according to the dictates of 
nature, among the different members of a family. It is, per- 
haps, also rather wanting in appropriateness ; castles never 
having been used for defence in this country.. Notwith- 
standing these objections, there is no very weighty reason why 
a wealthy proprietor should not erect his mansion in the cas- 
tellated style, if that style be in unison with his scenery and 
locality. Few instances, however, of sufficient wealth and 
taste to produce edifices of this kind, are to be met with 
