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very much the position of Fleet Street and Temple Bar in that of a Londoner,-at least, at the time when Temple Bar was occasionally decorated with human heads. The two buildings closely resemble each other in form.

§ 4. We must now proceed to obtain some rough idea

of the appearance and distribution of the palace itself; but its arrangement will be better understood by supposing ourselves raised some hundred and fifty feet above the point in the lagoon in front of it, so as to get a general view of the Sea Facade and Rio Façade (the latter in very steep perspective), and to look down into its interior court. Fig. 37

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