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Post Office is the portico of clever classic, though simple 
design, to be seen in the rear of the building ; where 
too, some balusters of good bold proportions and a few 
odd mouldings quoins-and-curves here and there are 
to be seen, telling us that at least some part of this 
public building had fallen into other than mere builders' 
hands at some time or other. 
Touching on bay windows or as they are sometimes 
called oriel windows and sometimes confused with 
bow windows, it is to be much regretted that such 
a pretty addition to our dwellings, so effective out- 
side, and so convenient inside, has not found fair 
favour in the colony, or at least in Georgetown, for 
they are, but with an odd exception, not to be met with 
in the colony. 
In England and elsewhere, where stone and brick 
abound, the difficulty of projecting the bay window 
arises often from the heaviness of the material used in its 
construction, or in a word, from the difficulty of sup- 
porting it, or of corbelling it out ; but here where the 
work must be of wood, and where there is no lack of long 
timbers for construction, no such mechanical difficulty can 
or should exist ; and if we are not tempted to construct 
bow or bay windows for the sake of the view, at any 
rate we might build them for the sake of the breeze. 
A veritable bay window like a "rara avis in terra" may 
be seen attached to a large well-built house at the further 
end of Bourda district, close to the Botanical Gardens. 
In the promenade gardens, it is worth mentioning that 
another curiosity is to be seen in the shape ot a fountain 
of classic beauty and design, — curious not for its anti- 
quity, but as being the only art gift bequeathed or given 
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