RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
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windows are either pointed or square-headed, or perhaps a 
mixture of both. The porch rises into a turreted and 
embattled gateway, and all the offices and out-buildings 
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 
terrace 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, 
perhaps, also rather wanting in appropriateness, castles 
never having been used for defence in this country. 
Notwithstanding these objections, there is no very weighty 
reason why a wealthy proprietor should not erect his 
mansion in the castellated 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 among us ; and the castellated 
style is therefore one which we cannot fully recommend 
for adoption here. Paltry imitations of it, in materials less 
durable than brick or stone, would be discreditable to any 
person having the least pretension to correct taste. 
The Castellated style never appears completely at home 
except in wild and romantic scenery, or in situations where 
the neighboring mountains, or wild passes, are sufficiently 
near to give that character to the landscape. In such 
localities the Gothic castle affects us agreeably, because we 
know that baronial castles were generally built in similar 
spots, and because the battlements, towers, and other bold 
features, combine well with the rugged and spirited 
