The Architectural magazine . lings. In constructing these orna-mental chimney tops, however, they generally contrive either tocurtail them of their fair proportions, or to omit some member;so as, instead of pleasing, to raise up in the mind of the architect,or amateur, who knows what they ought to be, only feelings ofregret and disappointment. I shall give you an example of this from a villa in the Eliza-bethan style, just completed, not above a mile from town;premising, that I have not the least idea, either of the name of thearchitect, or of the builder. I confine my remarks entirely tothe c
The Architectural magazine . lings. In constructing these orna-mental chimney tops, however, they generally contrive either tocurtail them of their fair proportions, or to omit some member;so as, instead of pleasing, to raise up in the mind of the architect,or amateur, who knows what they ought to be, only feelings ofregret and disappointment. I shall give you an example of this from a villa in the Eliza-bethan style, just completed, not above a mile from town;premising, that I have not the least idea, either of the name of thearchitect, or of the builder. I confine my remarks entirely tothe chimney tops. Fig. 24. is a view of a stack exactly as it is, and fig. 25. aview of the stack as, I think, it ought to have appeared. You will observe, in Jig. 24-.,24 >t—lil^^^l^ that the shafts [a) are short and inele-gant, and that theplinth and basemouldings, which Ihave shown in ^, at ^, are en-tirely omitted. In-stead of this, ^. there are twopanels, shown at c,and a sort of cornice,or row of Indeed, the price of fish, in a short time, will probably not exceed one third,or even one fourth, of what it was in 1832. By the breaking down of thismonopoly, another lesson will be added to those already lately given todealers and tradesmen; viz., that the system of insuring, by small profits, ex-tensive sales, is the only one adapted to the present advanced state of societyin this countrv.— Cond. 64- Vfh/ilation of Li-tuiig-Iiooms.
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