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                                                                      	the constant overlapping of the circular b[f]ases separate
                                                                      it from all Italian work as well as the richly clustered
                                                                      pier.  The west front is of the time and style of the
                                                                      North gate transept of Rouen   In its general arrange-
                                                                      ment - placing of niches and filling of gables, it is so
   (x)	Much more might one say that  f the apse;  which is            totally ingerior that I do not wonder it is so foten
	marvellously harsh and meagre;  As compared either with              passed with a glance;  in fact at first one would
	the apse of Frari or of St John and Paul, so with the love-          Apses ?	set it down as a very ugly facade in good style (x)
	ly Romanesque apses of Verona it is like the pasteboard              But on examining the work of the niches and pedestals
	Gothic of a bazaar and well shows the superiority of the             I found it  by far the most wonderful I have yet seen
	 buttress to the pier, where the former is the least                 in northern Gothic  The pedestal filled with grotesques
	contracted or undecorated.  I felt this still more at                in the same way:  less able in scul[,]pture but more wild and
	Bourges, where the perfectly undecorated flying Buttresses           curious in fancy than Rouen, and many of them much richer
	have exactly the look of Shares set to support a sh ip.              in ornamentation the whole panel filled with a ground
                                                                      of running foliage, like Italian (Case Mastino sarco-
                                                                      phagus)  These of the central door are chiefly sacred
                                                                      subjects - those of the lateral doors mostly grotesques
                                                                      but I put down from the lateral ones a few of the more
                                                                      striking subjects.
                                                                      1.   Elephant and castle:  Less graphic than the St Zeno
                                                                      one.
                                                                      2.   A hog head walking on two legs turned backwards,
                                                                      hoofed, the head has a horn behind with drapery over
                                                                      it;  which ends in another  head like lord Brougham.
                                                                      3.  A boar hunt, the boar under a tree very spirited.

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