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Rh hould front the north. A villa is always properly placed upon the ea, when o near as to be beat and dahed with the waves. It hould never be removed from the bank to a little ditance from the hore; for it is better to retire to a coniderable ditance, than only a hort way; becaue the air is groer at a little ditance than at a greater, or immediately on the hore. Neither indeed hould a villa be ituated near a marh, or by a military road; for the heats exhale from the marh a noxious vapour, and bring to life inects armed with tings, which fly againt us in the thicket warms; from it likewie come for the plagues of water nakes nd erpents, being detitute of the winter pools; thee, envenomed with mud and putrified filth, often occaion hidden dieaes,