[M.4L]                                                                [M.4]	Milan .  Duomo .	4
a [diagram]                                                           
b [diagram]                                                           Chamouni -	Wednesday 17th October, 1849: I climbed yesterday afternoon
c [diagram]                                                           		an hour up the Breven to my old friend the cleft-stone . 
                                                                      		and above, nearly as high again :  the sun and air both so
                                                                      		warm as to render the work oppressive . two main points
                                                                      		I noted on the opposite aiguilles . that the excessive sharp peak
                                                                      		of Charmoz is on this side quite broad at the base . nearly of the
                                                                      		form a. opp: showing how safely it may long stand, though
                                                                      		from the Montanvert it looks like a lower head:  the other
                                                                      		that the deep gaps which seem from the valley to separate
                                                                      		the aiguilles are for the most part gaps of perspective:  drawn
                                                                      		by the retiring lines of the advanced buttresses:  and that
                                                                      		the separation between the masses is in reality very shallow
                                                                      		in proportion to their height, i.e. c. opposite instead of A b.
                                                                      		Milan, Friday 27th Oct.  The cathedral is a mixture of
                                                                      Flamboyant	perpendicular with flamboyant:  the latter being peculiarly
                                                                      manner		barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on
                                                                      Traceries	a pure, but a very early penetrative Gothic . Thus the ruling
                                                                      		lines of the barbarous flamboyant rose, fig 1. p 29, as
                                                                      		given in plain bands at fig 2 (too few observe: the upper half
                                                                      		inch being true:) are evidently directly derived from old Byzantine
                                                                      		Bandwork, and as such on a small scale would be very
                                                                      		agreeable:  on a large scale, forming as they do the meagre
                                                                      		traceries of the roses of the west windows of the intermediate aisles

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