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                     GEINERAL OBSERVATIONS
                                 ON
           PLAC ING G0sF C O L U M-NIS..
  COLUMNS when well disposed of are very ornamental, and, in some cases,
of real use; but care ought to be taken, that they be properly placed in
such
4situations as they will appear to advantage, and in such numbers, and of
such size, as will best suit the building on which they are placd.  A
singie column cannot be ornamental any where; nor can much be expected
from one being placed at each corner of a building; nor a great deal from
one
at each corner of a portico, although it is often done, and is sometime.
suffi.
cient.
  Columns when placed within one, or one and a half diameter of each other,
maybe made smaller than if placed singly. They never ought to be placed at
equal
distances from each other, if it can be avoided; nor nearer to each other
than
one half of their diameter. When more than two are wanted, the largest opening
ought to be left in the centre; if more than four are wanted, place two of
them about one diameter from each other, at each angle of -the portio at
building on which they are placed. When placed in front of a building, they
ought to stand in front of the piers, and never before windows or -door.
When they are placed -one over another, they ought to be exactly so, and
the
lightest on the top, as the stoutest is best calculated for support Where
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colum, ought to be     fom the diameter of the neck of the
Columns for the support of alleria in churches, should benno Liu
cery-to s    t tw      ht t   have to sustain; on account 0o
py     o much r    inhepews, and obstructing the sight df th
tioILx The cohunns may befr*om twelve to fourteen
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