Before, however, the subject of their architecture is wholly dismissed, a few words seem to be required on its general character and chief peculiarities.
First, then, the simplicity and regularity of the style are worthy of remark.

In the ground-plans of buildings the straight line only is used; all the angles are right angles; all the pillars fall into line; the intervals between pillar and pillar are regular, and generally equal; doorways are commonly placed opposite intercolumniations; where there is but one doorway, it is in the middle of the wall which it pierces; where there are two, they correspond to one another.

Correspondence is the general law.

Not only does door correspond to door, and pillar to pillar, but room to room, window to window, and even niche to niche.
Most of the buildings are so contrived that one half is the exact duplicate of the other; and where this is not the case, the irregularity is generally either slight, or the result of an alteration, made probably for convenience sake.

Travellers are impressed with the Grecian character of what they behold, though there is an almost entire absence of Greek forms.