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                                                                      	is altogether pointed;  the foliation and window heading
	Where could these rich foliations have sprung from in so             always maintaining the character:  But here the spirit is
great sudd[.]enness, and so distinct from the slow develop-           thoroughly divided:  the arcades of round arches, and the
ment of foliatiom at Venice.  Who built Cremona and what              rich turrets of successive tiers of them, give the build-
had Saracens to do with it.                                           ing an eminently Romanesque aspect while the foliation
                                                                      and pointing is as sharp and delicate as it is rich.  The
                                                                      brick mouldings are throughout exquisite, and exquisitely
                                                                      applied - only in paces a little obscure - being too
                                                                      flat, as in the bands across the windows at p 11 which
                                                                      here and there seem almost to escape the eye.
                                                                      The window at p 19 is entirely in brick except the shafts
                                                                      and capitals, it is a semicircle - c its highest point,
                                                                      and this window as well as those at p 11 and p 14 which
                                                                      are pure points ogee in one respect, they have shafts in
                                                                      the centre only:  their jambs being continuous, with the
                                                                      sub arch mouldings added, and the sub arches do not spring
                                                                      from the import of the great arch, but a good deal below
                                                                      it, rising with their apices above it.  At a page 11 is
                                                                      the dripstone of window A (p 11 1) b is that os the cen-
                                                                      tral window of north transept, having a backed dogt.
                                                                      added below c d on the dripstone angle, c in front d
                                                                      underneath At p 12 the entire section including drip-
                                                                      stone is given down to sub arch:  at p 13 (a little con-
                                                                      jectually as regards the stars, they may perhaps have been
                                                                      mere crosses of bars, or even incisions like

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