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cc trave, it will be nine Foot ? Whidi agrees not with the Intercolu-“ minum of Tuscan Pillars. To conclude this Paragraph, therefore," either the Conditions of the Tuscan Order here recited, are not ac-« cording to the Rules of Architecture taught by VitruviuS , and his" excellent Interpreter Sir H, Wotton ; or Mr. Jones was mistaken," when he conceived the Order of Stone-Heng to be Tuscan.

What this Doctor can object against the Order of which our An-tiquity consists,, you have fully, heard; and how for to pubiilh hisAbilities in Architecture rather, than upon any just Cause offered,he hath at present taken occasion to discourse of the five Orders, andof them hereafter will more largely. But, how much soever I am inthis Art to seek, I find my self nevertheless constrained chiefly toundeceive you, to answer particularly unto what he hath alledged,whereas otherwise I might in some few general Words only, toge-ther with all his Impertinencies, have clearly shaken him off.

That the ancient Roman Architects had in use five distinct Ordersof Architecture, to wit, the Tuscan, < Dortck, Ionick, Corinthianand Compound, I cannot afford him, considering that Vitruvius, wholived in the Reign of Augustus Cæsar, and whose Master of the Or-dinance, as I may say, or Engineer General he was, gives us but anAccount of the first four only,,without ever making the least men-tion of that, that now-a-days with us goes indifferently under themi. m vur. i. Name of the Roman, Compound * Mixt, or Italian Order, and of this3. c. 1. ‘Philander writing thereof shall astute you ; De quo, faith he, apudVitruvium præscriptum sit nihil j of which Vitruvius speaks not aWord. Neither, until Vespafians Time, that was the tenth Empe-ror in Succession after Augustus, do we hear any thing thereof; 'fortim. L z6. e. Tliny , who lived under him, enumerating r hire Orders of Columns',tells us, that the Roman Architects in his Time; made'but four forts ofthem, the Tuscan, ‘Dorian, Ionian, and Corinthian. , During the Em-pire of Vespasian, nevertheless, it seems, that the mixt Order was in-troduced, in regard the Colisens,. or as 1P hilander rather j the Colossens, which this Emperor built, had, as SsirMo supposcth, this Orderin it; and which was so called,; because that stupendous Work'wasfounded by Him, upon the very Place where the prodigious Colojses ofNero (formerly mentioned) sometimes stood., The Arch-Triumphaiof Vejpastan also, was erected wholly of ,the Compound Order; andthese are the first Works of Antiquity, that we encounter withalwherein this Order appears. Now, the Cause why t\\c Romans m-vented, composed it of all the;rest, and gave it the supremest Place inwhatever their greatest Works, was, to commemorate their universalConquest thereby, and signify to Posterity, that they not only triumph-ed over all the People of the then known World, but their Artslikewise. Whereby it plainly appears also, that the ancient Romans,until Vespafians Days, had not any Orders of Architecture of their\ own Invention; for the ‘Dorick, Ionick and Corinthian were invent-ed by the Greeks, as we all know, and the Tuscan by the Hetmri-ans of old. This then may suffice to inform you, that the ancientRoman Architects, who are. especially reputed those that lived aboutVitruvius his Age, had not five different kinds, or forts of Columnsin use among them, as this Doctor would persuade; but four only,and of those not one of their own Invention.

But,