[M.117L]                                                              [M.117]	Bacon palace	117
                                                                      
                                                                      Bases.		I am thoroughly at fault about their bases:  the onlyoctagonal
                                                                      		without leaves that I have come across - more so still about
                                                                      		the capitals - whose section (inside the bell & outside line the flowers)
                                                                      		is rudely given in fig 2 same page:  They are likest in style &
a [diagram]                                                           		flow to the best one of the Doge palace 3rd order, but
                                                                      		infinitely more masculine - all in red marble - all the leaves
                                                                      		springing from root & touching abacus with their point
                                                                      		- very few rolling waves of the bell in each - I think
                                                                      		no ribs:  they are kept light in effect by the absence of
                                                                      		all ponderous projection: and then made sublime by the
                                                                      		simplicity of their flow - set off by the autumnal glow and
                                                                      		smooth sea-like surface of their marble:  I think they
                                                                      		are the finest capitals - for pure surface work: and for
                                                                      		an effect of sublimity with  richness & grace, I have ever
                                                                      		seen.
                                                                      		The windows on these pillars are not less remarkable - their
                                                                      		contour is seen in Dag:  but observe the character of
                                                                      		heir transition:  They would almost be pure 5th were
                                                                      		it not that instead of their lower joint being purely
                                                                      		segmental of circle, as a opp: it begins to turn at
                                                                      		the end in sympathy with the ogee.  Explain this
                                                                      		in my first chapter on 5th order.  These windows are
                                                                      		all worked with c section in the proportion given at

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