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 lOO*^ COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 1795 1990. Entrance Gates to Villas are ( onstructed eitlier of iron or wood; and the lines which prevail in them should be thos of the mural Architecture to which they belonj^ The wrought-iron gates of the age of I^ouis XIV. were highly enriched with foliage and I79S flowers ; and those of modern times, formed of cast iron, are still more so. The richest metallic gates in the world are those of Tuscany, and especially of the cathedrals of Pisa and Florence, formed of brass. Some of the gates in British cathedrals, for example in Henry VH.'s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, are also highly enriched. The iron gates