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PREFACE

T was not without Reason the Ancientsthought that the Pjiles of those Propor-thus, which make the Beauty of Buildings ,were taken from the (Proportions of humanetBodies, and that as Nature has given astronger Make to Bodies ft for Labour,and a fligjiter to those of ABivity and Ad -dress ; so there are different ^ules in ther Art of Building, according as a Fabrics may be defignd massy or moredelicate. Now these different (proportions, accompanied with their properOrnaments, make the Differences of the Orders of Architecture z in which,the mofl Vifhle CharaBers which dijlinguijh them, depend on the Ornaments ,as the mofl essential Differences confifl in the (Proportions that their Partshave in regard of each other .

' These Differences of the Orders, taken from their Proportions and Cha-raBers, without mUch exaB PmiBuality, are the orlly Things that Archi-teBure has well deUrmind: all the reft, which confffs in the precise* ( a ) Measures