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                                                                      	Now I have noticed before the most strange and beau-
                                                                      tiful arborescence of this figure;  I was at some
	       MEASURES OF No 172.                                           pains to-day to ascertain it exactly, and therefore count-
                                                                      ed the bricks from fig 3 to fig 4.  Now on the back of No
	Observe a c in the large figure in a c in section fig 5 and          120 are 7 angles, marked 1, 5, 9, 10, 16, 22, 29
does not include under cable;  and b in large figures                 These are the under edges of the lines of brick so num-
is then opposite to a and d to c.                                     bered counting up:  in their inclinations to the slope:
Then c d - 5 " 5                                                      only in the case of (1) the line A B is not the slope,
     a c   0 "10¾                                                     represented by line A B:  the greatest change in direction
	     x c   3 "10   This pure stilt above c I found                   is between these two:  and it is considerable as far as
           about 1 " 1  This gives almost an exact      for arch      the ninth:  The 10th must I think have got distorted,
	     m n   2 " 3  defaced inside, white plaster                      it is inconsistent:  The 29th is the highest line whose
	     o p   4 " 3  p the top of dentil                                slope is definite.
	     q q   1 " 6½  diameter of outer brick circle                    Fig 6 seen as written shows the meeting of pointed brick
	     q2q2  1 " 3¾  --- --- ---  dentiled --- ---                     small arch and circle and dovetailing of the ornament
	     r s   4 " 0 exactly.                                            For rest vid p 49 Housebook 2 only note at p 21 bi[r]t book
	The top of the gable as sharp as a knife is 1 " 1½ above             x y being the angle of the gable butment, from x the ver-
the meeting of bricks at s   the stone coping about                   tical height to the great stone plinth p p 21 1 is 3 " 5
2½ or 2 in deep (broad - s2 s3) and the bricks                        and from y 3 "[/] 3:  the arms in the centre have been
used throughout the ornamental work are about 1½ inch or              effaced:  a rude plastered square only remaining p 21 1.
11/8 inch broad.  A gouse at the side of the campo, beside
		   this door, has a square door with the
		   early chamfer fig 2 page 21 bit book th
		   dotted line would be about 4 inches lon[,]
		   and above them is a pretty group of
singularly flat fourths - very early with c sec and a
lozenge fig 3 p 21 at the point of the central one.
The little square in which they all are is the Campiello
della Chiese a San Luca.

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