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[drawing]	The base of the eastern shaft has I think been              Great shafts of Piazzetta.  With what a just feeling the architects
originally the best cut;  and most grotesque                          		who gave them their bases rejected the usual leaf form, as
and as being more delicate or more in the way of                      		insipid on so large a scale and for isolated shafts!
the crowd, has been almost entirely worn away:  Keeping               		and  gave their octagonal plinths:  with the alternate
letters as for the other;  a is quite defaced;  b has I think         		angles filled up by groups of two figures each, stunted
a shoulder of mutton - c is plain enough, they have                   		and grotesque but full of life;  while the difficult
two baskets of the common water melon of the capitals of              		intermediate space is occupied by the utensils of their
palace:  vid Mr Brown’s note d is quite defaced but I                 		trade.
think has had faggots of wood.  This base is indeed a                 		Let a d opposite be the eastern - d c the southern or
great loss.  The section of the base is at p 4w  St M.                		sea side of the shaft plinths:  then their order of subjects
the flattened roll as usual in ancient work:  following               		is as follows:  In the western, or red granite shaft
the line x y z z2 above, the figures filling the corners of           		a. vintners one pouring wine out of a bottle into flat
square:  The length of x y or y z one side of octagon is              		cups;  the other drinking greedily;  a large cask, horizontal
3 " 2½:  The vertical height b p ( p 4 w) is circa 1 " 2              		between them joins them to the angle.
a b, 7 inch, b c 6 in;  at b is the joint and                         		b.  smiths with {large} pincers and heavy hammers, striking
above all is the massy granite.  The base below p is found            		furiously in spite of their dwarfed figure and crouching
by 3 plain octagonal steps having their angles to the                 		position on the anvil between.
side of the octagon roll on side of the octagon of the upper          		c.  figures much defaced, but they have between them a
 step is 5 " 6 and of lowermost 7 " 1½ the shaft at d is              		basket of small fish, capitally carved, as full as it can
15 " 10 round                                                         		hold, and another with four fine thunnies.
The western shaft is of red granite shattered at its                  		d.  They have too small vessels, one covered the other
base so that one cannot obtain its measure:  but 14 " 4               		not, I think either roasting apples or turnips.
round at (circa) 2 " 6 above the base.  This base is                  		The eastern, or grey shaft is much more defaced;  hardly
broader than that of the eastern it is drawn at p 4 3 1  a b          		any vestige of its figures left.  Vid. opp.
is about 8 inches   b c vertical about 1 " 9 and a side of
the outer octagon lowest step of the three 7 " 0
There is a rash note of this base also on the first
yellow pages of this book

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