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                                                                      		passage  Two more pilasters - The range of seven are
Piazzetta face                                                        		placed in the distance of about {nearly} four to six of the
a [diagram] c                                                         		external pillars - :  i.e.   o   o   o   o   internal:
          b                                                           		                             o  o  o  o  o   external
                                                                      		and of the whole set, the capitals are about six inches
                                                                      		lower than the outer capitals, while the wooden bracket
                                                                      		beam reaches much higher;  nearly to the lips of the
                                                                      		lions in {the} spandrils
                                                                      		The section of these morbid capitals at p 25 1 palace book
                                                                      		The bases are A simple, but with good ribbed leaves:
                                                                      		now choked with whitewash.
                                                                      		Of the fine old series of capitals described at p 28
                                                                      		Gothic book it is to be noted further - of the 7th;
                                                                      		it has on the side a; opposite, the daged bird with three
                                                                      		young ones in a leafy hollow, quite lovely;  especially
                                                                      		the rounding of the breasts of the nestlings:  at b; a
                                                                      		bird also feeding young but now with a crest on head and
                                                                      		plume of ostrich like feathers in tail.  At c a single bird
                                                                      		with its beak straight out, emerging from leaves:
                                                                      		foreshortened head, and see a leaf nodding over upon its
                                                                      		forehead, nothing can possibly be finer for effective composition
                                                                      		All these birds most delicately plumed with rayed feathers.
                                                                      		The leaf belt of this capital is like though not quite so
                                                                      		rich as that at p 231 Palace book.

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