[M.9L]                                                                [M.9]	Milan  St Ambrogio	9
                                                                      
                                                                      		both ways from the abacus of the capital, a b b c and
                                                                      		the curve is as accurate as could be drawn from the deter-
as well as of the [diagram] moulding - How vile it is in penmanship - how beautiful		mination of the ordinates of the points, d e f: with the
when properly gifted with substance and light and shade, [diagram] and		condition of the curve's being perpendicular at f to fg. 
how much depends on the slight and graceful variations of its         		h. is the section of the band which forms the complicated
curvature by interlacing, and on the Proutish richness of             		pattern of the left hand arch:  it is also. though more rudely
filling lines:  note that at the base this moulding fits thus, - [diagram]		cut that of the stalks of the leaves in the ornament below
and is gradually at about the seventh or eighth loop made             		and even of the narrowest & most simple braid of the one inch moulding
alternate [diagram] .                                                 		beside it: * in fact all the bands have two angular furrows
                                                                      		cut along them with the chisel:  in distant effect they are
                                                                      		divided into three by two dark lines, which are the time stained
                                                                      		ridges.  The ridges branch to each indent of every leaf:  the furrows
                                                                      		being cut from the points of the foils;  at i is the centre
                                                                      		of the abacus ornament of the bird capital on the extreme right
                                                                      		real size, and at k one of the leaves enlarged, showing the
                                                                      		principle of the whole: there are four such leaves on one side of
                                                                      		the abacus: five, more crowded on the other - so curiously
                                                                      		enough, a single fanshaped leaf has been turned in one out of
                                                                      		the 13 loops of the ovolo moulding, as seen at 2. and apparently
                                                                      		rejected:  and the loops have not quite filled their places, and
                                                                      		have therefore been pulled out & made more stalky on the
                                                                      		opposite side: It is curious to see ornament so thoroughly classical
                                                                      Classical Gothic	and fine mixed with statues so rude: and it must be one of my

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