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Rh bk. IV. ch. vir. CIVIL BUILDINGS. 97 more space had been wanted for addressing people in the platz, the omission of a central nuiUion would have sufficed. Notwithstanding this, it is a picturesque and appropriate building, more so than any other known out of the Flandrian province. The fountain, too, on the right hand of the cut, is a pleasing specimen of its class ; a little heavier at the base than quite comports with the style, though that is a fault quite on the right side. fW wwn if^ rai ra Ipi 'lmm iy h O s fll im.. 540. Fagade of the Kiiiglit-liall in the Castle of Marleuburg. (From Rosengarten.) As the examples just enumerated are types of the best buildings which exist in the province, they are sufficient to characterize the style, and at the same time unfortunately to show how little real beauty it has as a form of architecture. As many of the towns were populous and wealthy during the Middle Ages, they of course had large and commodious churches ; but, as happened in Holland, they have as little artistic merit as it is possible that a church should liave which is built in imitation of a French pointed-arched cathedral and with the dimensions which these churches possess, vol.. Tr. — 7