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blessed with neither beauty, form, nor feature. Here a 
fine opportunity for architectural talent has been lost j 
for it is just in buildings such as these, the architect's 
services should have been required, and his art-skill 
especially brought into full active play, or the engi- 
neer and architect just here might have worked con- 
jointly each however keeping to his line. With almost the 
same amount of money spent, a good architectural station 
building or at least some bold facade, commanding the 
view of a long length of street, might have graced our 
British Guiana capital. Again, if metal buildings are to 
be forced upon us, or we must need favour their intro- 
duction (and there is no good reason why we should not), 
a metal railway station, or a building where cast iron and 
zinc predominated, would have been just the thing, neither 
out of keeping nor out of character, provided of course, 
true art and originality were secured to the design, all 
falseness and flimsy flatness being carefully kept away. 
Speaking now of metal work, brings a matter 
of much building importance before us, and one 
begging more than a mere passing notice ; in fact 
were space allowed, many pages might be written 
upon that subject, viz., the art use of iron, and 
especially of cast iron in our buildings as an accom- 
paniment to, or in juxtaposition with the ordinary wood 
work ; for iron and wood, like brick and stone, may be 
brought into the best of building harmony, and be made 
mutually to assist each other, and furthermore we may 
add, as if in parenthesis, the more we can see our way 
to the using of iron, and the method too of preserving it, 
the better for our buildings generally and for certain 
ones particularly. 
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