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AîtctIl'1'ECTURE. 295é'l'naments of this âfCh are placed so as to correspond with the nails,of the mode]. In the (lrchitecture of some years back, here in Moroccd,the outline of the horse-shoe arch 15 obv10us; but the contractionbeneath is contrary to principle, and man has a faculty to be gratifiedindependent of the eye. The judgement tells him here is somethingwrong, and suspends that approbation 'which a first glirnpse caUs forth.'Vhether it has been the result of reflection and ex perience; or not, thefact ls, that the architecture of the present day here adopts the Homan,arch, and colur'nn also, which is not charaeteristic, nor has it Buch goodeffect as the ancient national one. As to the arch, the semicirc1e, hereadopted, is probably of aIl figures of this description that least pleasingtothe eye. And no figure possesses Buch powerful harmonie seales of,proportion as the arch. How this science has travel1ed to the westt'rom East Scythia, or by what route, might be still ascertained, weredue industry employed. That which the N ormans adopted seems·tohave rcached them about the tenth century; in fact, as seon'as they had acquired the power to carry it into practice. In the seventhcentury a Persian architect was much employed at Constantinople,and this city Was an entrep~tof ideas from east (the moral source)to west. The characteristics of the branch are ta be found in sacredworksofthe Gl'eek empire. In the details ofit, the ideas of Indiapre...·vail; and in that country the art of painting on glass, now 10st here,.hasexisted from time immemorial. The effects of this structure areawe, grandeur, light'Pess, ai~iness. It has been the happy lot of laterages to disparage it, for disparaged it is wherever deviated from. Forthetrue Arahesque, Seville and Granada~Si.iplFty specimens. A comparisonof the affinities between the two hranches affords sorne curiousmàtter. The modern style of this country i8 adapted to the climate,uniting coolness and cleanliness. Experience, which obeys Nature, has