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Manhattan, now almost extinct among us. There is also a 
quiet keeping in the cottage and the grounds around it, that 
assists in making up the charm of the whole : the gently 
swelling slope reaching down to the water’s edge, bordered 
by prettily wooded ravines through which a brook meanders 
pleasantly ; and threaded by foot-paths ingeniously contrived, 
so as sometimes to afford secluded walks, and at others to 
allow fine vistas of the broad expanse of river scenery. 
The cottage itself is now charmingly covered with ivy and 
climbing roses, and embosomed in thickets of shrubbery. 
Mr. Sheldon’s residence, (Fig. 59,) in the same neighbour- 
hood, furnishes us with another example of the Rural Gothic 
mode, worth the study of the amateur. Captain Perry’s spi- 
rited cottage, near Sing Sing, partakes of the same features ; 
and we might add numerous other cottages now building, or 
in contemplation, which show how fast the feeling for some- 
thing more expressive and picturesque, is making progress 
among us. 
Mr. Warren’s residence at Troy, N. Y., (Fig. 60,) is a very 
pretty example of the English cottage, elegantly finished 
internally as well as externally. A situation in a valley, 
embosomed with luxuriant trees would have given this build- 
ing a more appropriate and charming air than its present 
one, which, however, affords a magnificent prospect of the 
surrounding country. 
It is the common practice here to place a portion of what 
are called the domestic offices , as the kitchen, pantries, etc., 
in the basement story of the house, directly beneath the liv- 
ing rooms. This has partly arisen from the circumstance of 
the comparative economy of this method of constructing 
them under the same roof ; and partly from the difficulty of 
adding wings to the main building for those purposes, which 
