The first objection will obviously arise from the difference between the climates of India and of England: but this would apply with equal force against the adoption of architecture from parts of Greece and Italy,** which are hotter than those mountainous tracts of Hindustan, where the climate differs less from that of England than in the southern provinces near the sea-coasts. **[The Grecian style was introduced without any attention to the difference of climate; and so rare is the combination of fashion with good taste, or the union of genius with common sense, that even to the present day we see lofty porticos to shade the north side of houses, where the sun never shines; and balustrades on the tops of houses, where no one can ever walk, and where the slanting roof marks the absurdity.]
