[M2.2L]                                                               [M2.2]									2
                                                                      				Third Order Windows. 
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                                                                      		I have now found the peculiar 3rd order window a. opposite,
                                                                      		both lines being traced by the dentil:  connected
                                                                      		closely with the first Byzantine round: and having
                                                                      		Byzantine bracket capitals in the old house in returned square
                                                                      		of Rialto and the Leaf capital found from the Byzantine
                                                                      		truncation on the grand canal.
Stay  we must connect it also with 4th of A.                          		I think I can establish the course of this 3rd into the
                                                                      		4th very early:  at palazzo Dandolo for instance.
                                                                      		That the 4th is to be considered a true Arabic arch in
[diagram]                                                             		its earliest occurrence and forms an independent branch
                                                                      		running on contemporarily with the 5th.
                                                                      		Now the form a. opposite, carrying us back to what I have
                                                                      		called the First order, we have called the First order,
                                                                      		we have again the 2nd b; having either, and most usually
                                                                      		the Byzantine plain truncated  or that leaved as in palaz.
                                                                      		Falier.  I must either put this as a separate family,
                                                                      		or connect it with the great group of pointed orders and
                                                                      		rounds, wrought with this roll section.
                                                                      
                                                                      		But the form a as on the one hand it becomes the Arabic
                                                                      		4th, so on the other, it became the transitional 5th 
                                                                      		c opposite;  Taking the bead for the dentil in

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