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PLATE XI.
A PICTURESQUE DAIRY.
THIS building is designed in imitation of the ruins of a
church or chapel, formerly belonging to a small sequestered reli-
gious establishment, and intended to be placed, as those houses
generally are, by the side of a piece of still water, as if formed
for the purpose of being a stew for the preservation of fish, and
to which it might be appropriated; or built by the side of a
river, as if to partake of the benefit that would accrue from a
succession of fresh-water fish that would be caught in the different
wears placed in the stream.
The spot on which the building is supposed to be erected, is
in a retired part of a gentleman's estate, who farms his own
land, and has an extensive dairy-farm under his own direction,
and who would build it to be at one and the same time an
object of attraction to his visitors, as well as a place of resi-
dence for the person entrusted with the superintendence of the
dairy.
Though the outside of that part of the building which consti-
tutes the supposed chapel is meant to bear the appearance of the
dilapidations of time, the inside is intended to be handsomely
finished with Gothic decorations-at least it was originally so
designed, having been prepared for actual execution. The spot
was surrounded by higher ground, whence a spring issued, and
as a cascade, fell into the lake, on the margin of which the
building was proposed to stand. At a sufficient height a small
stream was separated, and continued under-ground, with the
intention to conduct it, in a small channel, round the pavement
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