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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 821 rooms, there should be a floor of rooms for the female servants, and a nursery over the wing next the offices, the windows looking over the offices. The bed-rooms in this wincr would be occupied by the family ; and, if they were a few feel lower than the other rooms on the best chamber floor, the garrets would be of a good height, and might be made comfortable rooms. In some large houses, a number of the under servants sleep in one room, without any regard to age, habits, &c. : but there are many objections to this plan, which is often a source of great discomfort to the ser^-ants ; for instance, those who have to sit up late, disturb those who have gone early to bed, &c. The upper servants should have separate rooms ; and the servants of visitors should never sleep in the same rooms with the servants of the family. The bed-rooms for the men-servants are therefore purposely divided, so that they will not contain more than two beds each. Fireplaces are shown in them, in case of sickness, and in order to ventilate the rooms. Chap. IIL Miscellaneous Designs for Fillas, icith various Degrees of Accommodation, and in different Sti/les of Architecture. 1736. The Designs submitted in this Chapter are a selection from more than treble the number sent us by diflTerent Architects. They are not all to be considered perfect ; though a number of them are so nearly so, in our eyes, that we can only speak of them in terms of admiration. Others, though not in all respects to be held up as objects of imitation, vet contain points of excellence in arrangement, or in style, calculated to afford instruction. In a few, there are what we consider to be positive faults; but these we have endeavoured to turn to the advantage of the student ; convinced that as much, or even more, instruction is to be given by pointing out faults and their causes, as by exhibiting and explaining beauties. The order followed, as in the preceding chapters of the same kind, is miscellaneous. Design I. — A Grecian ViOa, of a medium Size, for a Gentleman of Fortune. 1737. TTie Situation is supposed to be in a park, as shown in the general plan, fig. 1441, in which a a are two approaches; b, the wire fence separating the park troui