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iiig, fculpture, and all the arts dependant upon drawing, 
with a variety of elegant and pleafing ornaments, efpe- 
cially in naval and hydraulic architedture, in which, con- 
trary to all the maxims of true tafte, and regardlefs of 
probability, chimerical ornaments are often introduced, 
which have no manner of relation or affinity with the 
ftru6lures they are intended to decorate. They are often 
feen affixed to fubftances to which the things they re- 
prefent have little or no tendency to adhere; whereas 
the fea-anemonies fpontaneoully cling to every fubftance 
in and even out of water, and might therefore being 
grouped into pi6lurefque feftoons, be with great pro- 
priety fubffituted to the flowery garlands and other fuch 
ornaments which prepofteroufly decorate the fterns of 
fhips and the frizes on barges, and not feldom the moft 
'ftately edifices, fuch as bridges, fluices, See. 
'Expla- 
rolent a I’afchitefture, a la peinture, a la fculptuffe, et a tous les arts qmi ont le 
delTein pouf bafe, de beaux ornemens, fur tout pour I’architefture navale, et 
meme pour l’archite£lure bydraulique, ou, contre les regies du gout, contre la 
Vraifemblance, on employe fouvent des ornemens ebimeriques et peu analogues 
au fujet. On groupe, on attache ces objets a des lieux peu propi'es, peu dilposes 
a les recevoir j au contraire les anemones de mer shttachent a tout ce qui fe trouve 
dans I’eau et meme hors de I’eau. Elies pourroient etre fubftituees aux rozettes, 
former des groupes, des elpeces de guirlandes pittorefques dans la decoration des 
poupes des vaiffeaux, dans les frifes qui ornent lescanots, et dans quelques edifices 
hydrauliques, cortime les ponts, les eclufes, hct 
Voii-. LXV. 
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