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 998 COTTAGIC, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. carried across it. Tliese being the general principles, and the rules derived from them, a very few examples will serve to illustrate their application. Fig. 1785 is a view of a double Roman lodge: we call it Roman, because it con- tains columns superadded to the archway. The ground plan of this lodge, fig. 1786, shows a dwelling consisting of a kitchen, scullery, two bed-rooms, and other conveniences, on each side of the road. Though this lodge was contributed by a very eminent Archi- tect, we cannot bring ourselves to approve of the columns in the piers, on account of the large intercolumniations, and the consequent idea of weakness produced by such a length of architrave. It is true that the Romans introduced columns in this manner in their triumphal arches, but they did not carry the architrave through from one column to the other ; by which means, though the column was degraded to a mere ornament, yet no appearance of weakness was produced. Whoever wishes to see, from an existing example, the bad effect, when executed, of columns and architraves arranged as in the Design before us, has only to look at the new gates leading into Hyde Park from Piccadilly. Neither in this Design, nor in the gates of Hyde Park, can the architrave be formed of a single stone ; in the Design before us, the stone would require to be thirteen feet six inches long, and in the Hyde Park gates several feet longer. No doubt, such stones are