Excerpt from Oikidia, or Nutshells, Vol. 1: Being Ichnographic Distributions for Small Villas, Chiefly Upon Œconomical Principles; In Seven Classes, With Occasional Remarks
It may not, perhaps, be quite improper to inti mate, that the plans here offered to the public(4) were taken up at a venture, from a large parcel of others of the fame fpecies, the belt part of which may poliibly hereafter appear, if there {hould meet with a favourable reception; if orherwife, the au thor will be exceedingly ready to join in the public opinion, and fud'er the remainder to rot in oblivion. Thefe he has now publifhed, if fit for nothing elfe, may, however, ferve as hints for better defigns, and, on that account, be not entirely ufelefs.
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