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POLISHI HUT.
PLATE XII.
A POLISH HUT.
THIS design is intended as an embellishment to plantations,
and to form an open and spacious retreat, fancifully intersecting
a long and straight pathway of an elevated terrace. Several
buildings thus placed, and at proper distances, produce an
agreeable vista, and are particularly useful and ornamental in
newly made plantations. This kind of improvement has been
successfully adopted at the beautiful grounds of White Knights,
by his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, who, in this way, and
by arcades and trellises, has created a novel and interesting
feature in a part of his domain, that was otherwise destitute of
interest.
The style of this building is similar to many of the cottages
of Poland, and not unlike those of Switzerland: the former
country, however, afforded the example from which the present
design originated.  These huts were greatly admired, and
perhaps first employed in garden decoration by the celebrated
architect Kleber, in the picturesque and anglicised grounds of
the Marquis of Florimont, at Florimont in Alsace. This is the
same Kleber, who, afterwards, as general in the French service,
so eminently distinguished himself in Egypt, by his amiable
manners, and his scientific and military acquirements; and of
whom Buonaparte exclaimed " If I could be jealous of another,
it would be of Kleber!"-he was born a general, and bred an
architect.
The trunks and arms of trees that retain their bark, are the
simple materials of which the building is erected, and the roof is
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