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 TRAQUAIR HOUSE 443 FOURTH PERIOD time may be ascribed the attic story with the existing dormers of the first portion, of which a quaint specimen, with the turret adjoining at the north-east angle, is shown in Fig. 879. The buildings of the .third period are the low wings, the enclosure, the terraces and pavilions, and the grand entrance gateway. Several of the working drawings of this period, initialed and dated 16.Q5, are still FIG. 878. Traquair House. View from the North. preserved in the house, and through the courtesy of Mr. Maxwell Stuart we are enabled to present a copy of the elevation to the courtyard (Fig. 880), showing a proposal, evidently made at that time, to give the whole front a more uniform aspect than it now presents, uniformity of design being then one of the leading ideas in architecture. The right- hand side of the drawing shows the building as it now exists, the left- hand side what was proposed. It is probably fortunate that this altera-