[M.114L]                                                              [M.114]
                                                                      No 94 95 6-7-8-9.	Ducal palace. Centre to sea	114
                                                                      
                                                                      		transverse joints are very neat and clean, not the eighth of an
                                                                      		inch wide; but the longitudinal at side are rough, and
                                                                      		occasion the jagging & apparent inaccuracy: the 92-3-4
[diagram]                                                             		were cut with ivory knife beside dentil: the 91 more
                                                                      		difficult to crush into place, is a little too narrow - ¼ of
                                                                      		inch each side perhaps: it is the shape however of the uppermost
                                                                      		piece of stone within the mortar: and note especially the
                                                                      		want of symmetry in its two sides; in a thing so easily
                                                                      		made symmetrical this is very remarkable, and made one
                                                                      		trace the whole.
                                                                      No 95.  Rough tracing from the balcony of Doge’s Palace towards
                                                                      		Piazzetta - its principle the same as the other vide p 102, and No 78.
                                                                      No 96  Beaver of the casque with bird pecking its bosom: on wall of
                                                                      		house no 43.  The wall of course later than the house.
                                                                      No 97, 98.  Describe the central canopy of facade to sea
                                                                      		of Doge’s palace.  I am much disappointed by its examination
                                                                      		- the only truly fine thing in it is the sweeping breadth
                                                                      		of dogtoothed circle figs 1 & 2 no 97  The rest
			+ and by its composition                                           		is La Scala becoming Milan - only saved by its severity
		which is throughly good.                                            		and sweet setting in of colour in small trefoiled arches. +
                                                                      		A bad statue of St Michael by Canova on the east side is
                                                                      		scrawled all over with pencilled names (chiefly Italian and
                                                                      		German - till from white it has become grey.
                                                                      		Farther details of the Gothic canopy are given in No 99.

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