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situation, but that situation is particularly good. Seen from the west in particular (Fig. 46), the composition is
Fig. 46.
extraordinarily scientific; the group beginning with the concave sweep on the right, rising up the broken crags which form the summit, and give character to the mass; then the tower, which, had it been on the highest point, would have occasioned rigidity and formality, projecting from the flank of the mound, and yet keeping its rank as a primary object, by rising higher than the summit itself; finally, the bold, broad, and broken curve, sloping down to the basalt crags that support the whole, and forming the
Fig. 47. large branch of the great ogee curve (Fig. 46), from a to b. Now, we defy
