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Yet I trust these passages will be found no less useful than
magnificent; they lead to the several rooms, which form a
complete suite of apartments, consisting of eating-room, break-
fast-room, drawing-room, and library. The rooms all open by
.windows to the floor on a terrace, which may be enriched with
orange trees and odoriferous flowers, and will form one of the
.greatest luxuries of modern, as well as one of the most magni-
ficent features of ancient habitation.
It now remains for ime to shew that I have not suggested a
.design more expensive, than a house .of any other character,
containing the same number of apartments. The chief difficulty
of building arises from the want of materials. A-house of Port-
land stone would be very expensive. A Tred brick house, as
Mr. Brown used to say, "puts the whole valley in a fever." A
house of yellow brick is little better. And the great Lord Mans-
,field often declared, that had the front of Kenwood been
originally- covered with Parian marble, he should have found
it less expensive than stucco. Yet one of these must be used in
any building except a castle; but for this the rude stone of the
country, lined with bricks or faced 'with battens, will answer
every purpose; because the enrichments are few, except to the
battlements and the entrance tower, which are surely far less
expensive than a Grecian portico.
The attached offices, forming a part of the front, are so dis-
posed as to lie perfectly convenient to the principal floor and to
the private apartments, while the detached offices, the court-
yards, and even the garden-walls, may be so constructed and-
arranged, as to increase in dimensions the extent of the castle.
This unity of design will be extended from the house to the