[M.85L]                                                               [M.85]
                                                                      No 85-86	Ducal palace: Inner Cortile: Upper arcade	85
                                                                      	 (and Lat. Windows))
                                                                      
                                                                      		the beaked bird walnut like angle is assuredly less than
                                                                      		a rt [diagram].  Others of the piers are four shafts about a
                                                                      		central one:  All grand in the highest degree, & their
                                                                      		capitals mighty, and magnificently fused together: Florid
                                                                      		with heads mixed - I cannot guess their time - the heads
                                                                      		are large and ugly, & not so delicate in cutting as those
                                                                      		of the outside capitals:  Fig 3 is the section of that of
                                                                      		the five shafts - fig 4 of the bottom of that of the solid
                                                                      		pier:  abaci & flower work alike: fig 5 the base of
                                                                      		all - I never saw so flat a one: worked with exquisite
                                                                      		shield decorated leaves like the outside ones.
                                                                      Lateral		But - to return to the upper windows of Canal towards
                                                                      Windows	bridge of sighs:  Above are described the group furthest
                                                                      		from the sea - next to these is another similar
                                                                      		group:+ and then come two; attached: still of the
                                                                      		3rd order - but with a different section and a dentil
                                                                      		external instead of a roll.  These are mostly described
I am wrong, - their arrangement is [diagram]                          		on No 85. the section of their jamb and archivolt
and the group first described is the triple one:                      		is the same:  it begins at A fig 2 No 85, real size
                                                                      		carefully set by the stone.  Applying C of the one
                                                                      		to C of the other, it is completed in No 86
                                                                      		The capital seen laterally is drawn in Fig 1 No 85.
                                                                      		Finally, on no 84 is given the description of the
                                                                      vide p 105

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