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11BRIDG(US.
PLATE IX.
A BRIDGE AND TEMPLE.
WHERE the banks of a stream intersecting the garden of a
domain in an elevated class of decoration are precipitous, a
bridge, as here represented, would form an agreeable feature of
the scene, and accordingly as the stream favourably deviated
from a straight line, the view from the temple would be varied
and interesting.
This design should be executed in stone, and upon a small
scale; for such an edifice, when applied as ornamental chiefly,
should be considered rather as a bijou than otherwise, and ele-
gance of character be made to supersede the striking and bold
effects necessary to buildings connected with the chief approach
to the mansion. When stone quarries are on the estate itself,
and the charge of distant carriage therefore not incurred, these
buildings may be erected at a moderate expense, and many
architectural beauties introduced that are not within the reach
of persons otherwise situated, without a vast expenditure. The
expense attendant on land carriage, has done more to prevent
the use of stone, and consequently the adoption of similar de-
signs, than the consideration of the labour necessary to erect
them, united with the additional charge of the material itself:
from this cause they have sometimes been built of wood or
plaister; and the speedy decay of these have necessarily pre-
vented the frequent use of such buildings in landscape or
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