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 STABLE OFFICES. 96^ billiard-room. The ground plan of these stables was designed by us, in 1809 for the late Colonel Mytton of Garth, Montgomeryshire; and it is proper to observe that a 1702 principal object in view was, to provide accommodation for breeding and breaking in a superior description of riding-horses. The situation on which these stables were placed was the summit of an elevated knoll, protruding from the side of a hill ; and their effect was remarkably good from all the surrounding country. The elevation actually executed 1703 from our Design was different from either of those now given, and, we need not say, much inferior ; the latter haing been suggested and sketched for us by Mr. Barry, and prepared for the engraver by Mr. Lamb. Fig. 1702 is in the Italian style, and fig. 1703 is in the Tudor Gothic. The plan in the last case, being a polygon of as many sides as the plan for the Italian elevation has intercolumniations. In both elevations the roofs are concealed, because they are considered to be flat, and covered with lead or