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means, it unites, as we before stated, so much of conve- 
nience and rural beauty.* 
To the man of taste, there is no style which presents 
greater attractions, being at once rich in picturesque 
beauty, and harmonious in connexion with the surrounding 
forms of vegetation. The Grecian villa, with its simple 
forms and horizontal lines, seems to us only in good keeping 
when it is in a smooth, highly cultivated, peaceful scene. 
But the Rural Gothic, the lines of which point upwards, in 
the pyramidal gables, tall clusters of chimneys, finials, and 
the several other portions of its varied outline, harmonizes 
easily with the tall trees, the tapering masses of foliage, or 
the surrounding hills ; and while it is seldom or never 
misplaced in spirited rural scenery, it gives character and 
picturesque expression to many landscapes entirely devoid 
of that quality. 
What we have already said in speaking of the Italian 
style, respecting the facility with which additions may be 
made to irregular houses, applies with equal, or even 
greater force, to the varieties of the Gothic style, just 
described. From the very fact that the highest beauty of 
these modes of building arises from their irregularity 
(opposed to Grecian architecture, which, in its chaste 
simplicity, should be regular), it is evident that additions 
* The only objection that can be urged against this mode of building, is that 
which applies to all cottages with a low second story, viz. want of coolness in 
the sleeping chambers during mid-summer. An evil which may be remedied 
by constructing a false inner-roof — leaving a vacuity between the two roofs of 
six or eight inches, which being occupied with air and ventilated at the top, will 
almost entirely obviate the objection. 
In our Cottage Residences, Design II., we have shown how the comfort of 
a lull second story, suitable for this climate, may be combined with the expres 
sion of the English cottage style. 
