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dog tooth ornament and a dove tail joint, he is thereby 
fully qualified to design, and fully authorised to write, 
his name, as architect, at the corner of his drawings. 
The power of tracing a window, or cribbing a moulding 
or copying a cornice or even colouring up a plan does 
not turn a builder into an architect, or entitle such an one 
to seek commissions as a true professional man. 
But to return to our public works, seeing what diffi- 
culties do exist and what rocks or blocks there 
are ahead — we may come to the safe conclusion that 
our city architecture depends upon our public men, on the 
one hand, and upon our professional gentlemen on the 
other. It is for the former to select and secure the ser- 
vices of the latter and to put the right man in the right 
place. But if our city fathers and the lords and masters 
of our public money mix up in one big dish the archi- 
tect, engineer, builder, connoisseur, and amateur, and 
throw into the mixture by way of special flavour a black- 
smith, a carpenter, a tinsmith and some other things be- 
sides, in true colonial pepper-pot fashion, — then we 
shall richly deserve what we get ; but if on the other 
hand the engineer is kept to his constructions, the ar- 
chitect to his designs, the builder to his bricks and 
boards, and the others left out of the question altogether, 
then we shall get something worth having. 
And now before we visit some of the few public build- 
ings of the town, a word or so about our private resi- 
dences, their domestic architecture, or rather we must 
say, the absence of it. As long as our men of means 
and moneyed merchants look upon our colony as a mere 
temporary dwelling place, or as long as they will not 
make it their home and a place of life-long residence, so 
