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X  -The overing may be of flates, copper, wood painted, ocoated,toefift
i:eather, &c.; but for Cottages, thatch is certainly moft charafteriflic,
and may
:-be of .raw, reeds,. ruhes, &c.; the windows in cafements of 6iad lead,
or in the
   pa-tent compofition; the external appearance of rough ftucco, or rough
call. Such,
I am fure, with a regular elevation, if properly adapted to the Surrounding
fce-
a:n e~y, will have asgreat a fhare of pilurefque effedt as good talfc can
defiree and
eO ii confiftent wthcivilized life;
               's 'Where fimple Nature's hand, with noble grate,
         -0>-  Diffufes artlefs beauties oer the place."
   Sice the publication of my former Work, Ferme Ore, in which 1 took the
earlierf opportunity of mentioning the 'P/B method of building Cottages,
the
procefs entire, with the feveral manners of doing the fame, have been amply
de-
tailed by Mr. Holland, Archited, and have been publifhed by the Board- of
-Agriculture in their quarto volume of" Communications." From the
favourable
flatement there given, this method has been pradlifed by feveral Gentlemen
with
- fuccefs; from fome of whom I underfland the favings to be about one third
part of the expenfe of the walls: the other parts and finifhings remain as
ufual7
   The following Defigns have principally been made for, and adapted to parti-
cular fituations, the leading features of which are generally portrayed in
the
Surrounding fcenery. This adapting of a Houfe to its fituation, I confider
of fo
great importance, that I cannot refift the temptation of adding the judicious
re-
marks of an ingenious and accurate mind on the propriety and fitnefs of cha.
rafer, or do proper Situations for an Houfe."
     However * various opinions may be on the choice- of a fituation for
an Houfe,
yet there appear to be certain principles on which fuch choice ought to be
founded; and thefe may be deduced from the following confiderations:
   ' Firft, The natural charader of the furrounding country.
   e44  condly, The flyle, charaCter, and fize of the Houfe.
   'This is part of the third chapter of" UriSic/s and Hints on Landfcae
Garng," l'y H. REPTOP, E£.;
 a work of great take and igenuitry, wbich, from its great rarity and price,
unforuately can be coofulted only
 by ew. .
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66 A nircily,