[M.43L]                                                               [M.43]	Ca d'Oro. Traceries. First story: Alps.	43
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                                                                      		great roll gives a peculiar character to the cusp [diagram]: It is always
                                                                      		filled by as much of the other orders of the tracery as it
                                                                      		will admit, and thus, the entire tracery being scrawled opposite
                                                                      		the interstice 1, which is the largest, reaches nearly as deep
                                                                      		as h of section at A on last page:  it is seen with its deep cavetto and
                                                                      		recess beyond in fig 1 No 15.  The spaces 2: all of course
                                                                      		alike, reach not quite to g of the section and are as the
                                                                      		space in fig 1 without the small [diagram] in centre:  a great triangular
                                                                      		basin.  While the interstices 3 all alike, reaching only a little
                                                                      		beyond f of the section, are treated as at 3 opposite
                                                                      		to save the ugliness of the deep cutting in small space.
                                                                      Venetian houses, Mem 1.  At Ponte del Teatro Malibran:  a beautiful balcony
                                                                      		with the trefoiled arch and cherubs heads filling ths spaces
                                                                      		, a fine case of transition:  The slab at the base dentiled instead
                                                                      		of cabled, & fine lions at angles.
                                                                      		Tuesday, Nov 20th  I got chilled to-day as I was drawing
                                                                      		in the arcade of Doge’s palace:  and ran away to the Rialto
                                                                      		to warm myself - meeting Effie I took her with me to the
                                                                      		quay of Murano:  It was a grey day - the sky lay in calm
                                                                      		horizontal bars far to the northern horizon:  thus it suddenly
                                                                      		broke to an open - long gulph of amber green: and against
                                                                      		this - clear in  rainy air - rose the chains of the Tyrolean Alps.
                                                                      		- one gloomy, serrated rank of purple grey, so clear that every
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      	

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