the Windows of the back Front are fo placed, that the fame keeping of Defign is continued through all the Parts of which it is compofed. At the Ends I have added Windows for the fake of the Profpect; but in the Room over C, if your Alcove is placed there, a Blank must be made where the Vacuity now is, each Room having fufficient Light without 'em. THIS Plan, if required, might be alter'd on the principal Floor, by making at the East End only one Room, which fhould be from the North to the South Front; and would be 30 feet long, and 20 feet wide, by making it range with the Screen of Columns, and placing a Venetian Window in the middle of the East End; but then that Room must be 15 ft. high, which Proportion would be 6, 4, and 3, and the Attick Story from being II ft. would be only 8 ft.high over that Room; but two Lodging Rooms the fame Length and Breadth, as thofe now are, might be had with this Alteration. IF by thus altering the Plan, that Room might be had on the principal Floor, it might be objected, that fuch a Room would be too large for the Magnitude of the Building; and if the Quality of the Inhabitant fometimes required required fo fpacious a Place for Entertainment, then confequently Conveniency on that Floor would be wanted; and inftead of supplying thofe wants with more Rooms, one of thofe, which now are, would be omitted. It is certain, for a Family fuch Alteration is not preferable to the Plan before us; but for a fingle Perfon, not over-fond of Company, one ftudious, and who prefer'd a contemplative, rural Life, with few Attendants, to one Generally efteem'd fashionable and gay, by converting that Room to a LIBRARY, in which, perhaps, might be his chief Refidence; to fuch a Perfon, that Alteration would be more ufeful, and the other 2 Rooms of this Floor might be fufficient for his Ufe or ConveniI would then propose to make the 2 North Windows of that Room Blanks, that in Winter it might be Warmer ; the back Parlour, markt A, being proper for a Summer Eating-room, in which the VISTA Would be continued the fame as it now is. ence. THERE are doubtless many things may have escap'd my Notice, which had been more needful for me to Explain; but as things Memory, which I think occur to my of fome Im portance, portance, you will, I hope, excuse Prolixity; too much cannot be faid, if it tends only to render an Undertaking intelligible and univerfally useful; and there are fome branches in many Arts that require extenfive Demonftrations to be comprehended. However, if I have not wearied your Attention, I am careful of being too tedious: Therefore till another, or a more favourable Opportunity offers, I beg leave at prefent to esteem my self, Your bumble Servant, &c. Read to the Society T LECTURE LECTURE The ELEVENTH. rent par N Two preceding Lectures I have endeavour'd, in a ticular manner, to defcribe the Beauties of two diffeSituations. The Defign before us affords a Delicacy of Tafte and Invention to appropriate a Spot analogous to its Decoration. It is of the Corinthian Order, drefs'd with fuch Ornaments and Garnishing as are neceffary to perfect the Compofition. Here the ARCHITECT must be supply'd by an artificial Scene to entertain his Fancy He must, by agreeable Images of rural Beauties, furnish himfelf with what is ufeful, and adapted to the design, so joining ART and ÑaTURE together to render the Scene the more delightful. : THE |