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toc =Image= Source: <> book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs. http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/203799 =Transcript= (iii) Observations upon the ancient Buildings there, during many Years application to these Studies: For a cursory View of those August Remains can no more qualify the Spectator, or Admirer, than the Air of the Country can inspire him with the knowledge of Architecture. If this Book prove useful in some degree answerable to the Zeal of my Friends in encouraging and promoting the Publication of it, I shall not think my time mis-spent, nor my Pains ill-bestowed. I shall now proceed to give a short Explanation of the Plates as they stand in the Book. THE