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will pass on to other features far more telling on the 
town, and comparatively speaking, of recent introduc- 
tion, and such as certainly have helped much to relieve 
the monotony of many of our houses, and we may add 
the house monotony of much of our town ; we al- 
lude to our towers, mostly of campanile form, ere6led 
within the last twelve years. Some of these structures 
are very prettily designed and artistically proportioned. 
There stands one somewhat answering this description 
though with an overdone finial on the top, opposite 
the Convent (not certainly the Water Works tower) ! 
to which indeed much character might have been given 
in days gone by if men had cared to give it. Another 
Italian style of tower of graceful proportions, with a bold 
cornice of exquisite design, lately stood in the Police 
Barracks on the Brickdam. It has disappeared in spite of 
the police who watched above and around it; we mourn 
its loss ! There are some few other towers of art merit, 
while to so many of these structures architectural justice 
has not been done. The upper portion of the Tower 
of our great Hotel has much to commend it, and stands 
among the few lofty features of our town. 
And now leaving our towers and minor structures, 
we will pass on to visit some of our public buildings 
— viewing them more from an external point of view 
than studying their internal beauty and arrangement. 
Of all our public buildings of less modern date, we 
have no one building in the town claiming for itself a 
greater share of architectural merit, than that large 
solid block of structure known as the Public Buildings : 
a building constructed evidently before the revival of 
mediaeval art in the mother-country, and consequently 
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