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ble and beautiful tliat architeefure can dif~
play.
Again, tbofe rocks of crumbling, friable
ifone, that are broken into detached pointed
forms, with holes, openings, and intricacies
of evety kind, may be compared to fimilar
forms, openings, and intricacies in Gothic
buildings, of which indeed they probably
gave the firft idea; highly amufing from
their variety and fingularity, but much lefs
grand and impofmg.
Rocks of flate and fhivering fione, which,
infiead of being difpofed in large mafies, are
parted into thin layers, however lofty they
may be, however their fummits may be bro-
ken and varied, have comparatively a poor
effecl, from the want of folidity and mafiive-
nefs. Thefe are like cafiles and towers built
of rubbifh and fmall fiones, kept together by
the cement only; both of them at a difiance,
and under the infiuence of twilight, or of a
ble and beautiful tliat architeefure can dif~
play.
Again, tbofe rocks of crumbling, friable
ifone, that are broken into detached pointed
forms, with holes, openings, and intricacies
of evety kind, may be compared to fimilar
forms, openings, and intricacies in Gothic
buildings, of which indeed they probably
gave the firft idea; highly amufing from
their variety and fingularity, but much lefs
grand and impofmg.
Rocks of flate and fhivering fione, which,
infiead of being difpofed in large mafies, are
parted into thin layers, however lofty they
may be, however their fummits may be bro-
ken and varied, have comparatively a poor
effecl, from the want of folidity and mafiive-
nefs. Thefe are like cafiles and towers built
of rubbifh and fmall fiones, kept together by
the cement only; both of them at a difiance,
and under the infiuence of twilight, or of a