If any general principles could be established in this art, I think that they might be deduced from the joint consideration of relative fitness or UTILITY, and comparative proportion or SCALE; the former may be referred to the mind, the latter to the eye, yet these two must be inseparable. Under relative fitness I include the comfort, the convenience, the character, and every circumstance of a place, that renders it the desirable habitation of man, and adapts it to the uses of each individual proprietor; for it has occasionally happened to me to have been consulted on the same subject by two different proprietors, when my advice has been materially varied, to accord with the respective circumstances or intentions of each.
