London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 73
ty. How different is this from what modern architects erect,when they attempt to produce what is, by courtesy, calleda Swiss cottage. The modern building known in Britain bythat name has very long chimneys (see Jig. 12.), covered withvarious exceedingly ingenious devices for the convenient… … interesting and romantic manner, at eachextremity, in a tooth-pick. Its walls arevery precisely and prettily plastered; andit is rendered quite complete by the addi-tion of two neat little bow windows, sup-ported on neat little mahogany brackets, full -of neat little squares of red and yellow…
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