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PLATE 10 339
these early edifices.1 At the first glance, the building might be supposed to consist of one large and eight smaller arches; but it will be noticed on closer examination that the two midmost of the minor arches on each side are wider than the others. From base to base of their shafts they measure 3 feet 10 inches, the lateral and intermediate arches only 3 feet 8 inches. The height of the stilted archivolts is also not a little remarkable, even the broad central one being much higher than a semi-circle. It is 9 feet 9 inches wide, and 6 feet 8½ inches high under the soffit.2
1 [See Vol. VIII. p. 208. In the second volume of Stones of Venice Ruskin entered into the subject more fully: see Vol. X. pp. 48, 152-153.]
2 [The plate is here reduced from 18 x 9¾ to 71/8 x 37/8.]
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