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                                                                      	upside down, compare a and b opposite and remember arc de
                                                                      l’Etoile  But as the semicircular shafts have separate
                                                                      bases, so they have separate capitals, of which the afore-
                                                                      said cornice, containing forms the only abacus:  These
                                                                      capitals are of all Romanesque work I have yet seen, the
                                                                      richest :  they are small compared with St Zeno - one 
                                                                      or two close initialled and delicate Corinthian - the 
                                                                      Corinthian order is therefore the origin of all Gothic
                                                                      but most of them groups of ten or twelve figures;  rich
                                                                      grotesque and elegant beyond description - one (Effie
                                                                      tells me) having dogs heads small at the angles, with
                                                                      large leaves coming out of their mouths, which leaves
                                                                      branch at the extremities with tendrils of smaller
                                                                      leafage interlacing about the capital another not in the
                                                                      nave, and of a lower shaft in the choir, is composed of
                                                                      broad leaves with fir cones between; others of the usual
                                                                      Early English leaf - each round lob[v]e carvred into a head
                                                                      knotty heads all round.  But the figure groups of the nav[c]e
                                                                      ar[t]e the most striking.
                                                                      	Let fig 3 p 81 be the head of the shaft with its cornice
                                                                      above the capitals, stopping on flank of pilaster in
                                                                      front  Then the pier arch is of two orders;  whose section
                                                                      if fig 4 of which the first m2 is carried by m of the pier
                                                                      and the sub arch n2 by n of the pier.
                                                                      The sub arch is evidently a form of the classical archi-
                                                                      trave, its curious

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