5. _Of Flooring and Ceiling_, 54.

_Of Flooring upon the Ground_, 54. _between Stories_, 55.
_Open to the Air as Terrass, &c._ 57. _the Roof_, 58.
_Cornice_, 59.

Art. 6. _Of Plaistering_, 59.

_For great Walls, For Fresco_, 60. _for Partitions_, 61.
_For moist places_, 61.

_Chap. III._ Of the Convenience of Fabricks.

Art. 1. _Of convenient Scituation_, 63.

_That a place be convenient, it ought to be fertile,
accessible, in a wholsom Air, not on low Ground or marshy_,
64. _How to know a wholsom Climate_, 65.

Art. 2. _Of the Form and Scituation of the Building_, 65.

_The Streets and Houses of a City to be the most
advantagiously expos'd in respect to the Heavens and Wind_,
65, 66. _The scituation of each Room to be according to the
use of it; of Dining-rooms, Libraries, Closets, &c._ 67, 68.

Art. 3. _Of the Dispositions of Fabricks_, 68.

_The Dispositions of Buildings to be according to the use of
the House, either publick or private; of Merchants Houses;
of Country Houses; Of the several Apartments_, 70. _Of
Lights_, 71.

Art. 4. _Of the convenient form of Buildings_, 71.

_Of the Walls of Cities; Form of publick places_, 72. _which
were different among the_ Greeks _and_ Romans; _of Stairs
and Halls_, 72.

_Chap. IV._ Of the Beauty of Buildings.

Art. 1. _In what the beauty of Buildings consists_, 74.

_Two sorts of beauty in Buildings; 1st, Positive, which
consists in the Symmetry, Materials, and Performance_, 75.
_2d. Arbitrary, which is of two sorts; 1. Prudence, 2.
Regularity; which consist in the proper providing against
Inconveniences, and observing the Laws of Proportion_, 76.
_The beauty is most seen in the proportion of these
principal parts_, viz. _Pillars, Piedments, and
Chambrantes_, 78. _From these things result two other,
Gender and Order_, 79.

Art. 2. _Of the five Genders, or sorts of Fabricks_, 80.

_The five sorts are Pycnostyle, Systile_, 80. _Diastyle,
Areostyle, Eustyle_, 81. _The Genders to be always agreable
to the Orders of Architecture_, 82.

Art. 3. _Of the five Orders of Architecture_, 84.

_The distinction and difference in the several Orders;
consists in the Strength and Ornament_; Vitruvius _speaks
but of three Orders_, 85.

Art. 4. _Of things that are common to seve