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                                                                      	great fault of this capital is its edge bell - looking 
                                                                      a tin saucepan utterly mean and weak.
                                                                      I must look for what papellote means in the account of
                                                                      Lucifer above p 181, and see if I can find origin of these
                                                                      knots, for they are not the least like leaves, and are ut-
                                                                      terly harsh in all their contours.  The principle of dottin[g]
                                                                      all the mouldings is a bad one to begin with and must be
                                                                      criticised in detail but if it is to be done, better with
                                                                      ball flowers as at Salisbury then with curl papers   Flat
                                                                      roses however also occur often in the hollows of the
                                                                      mouldings here;  Bourges and are very beautiful
                                                                      the cavettos of the wheel window over central porch have
                                                                      them:  these are very deep, and in their under turns,
                                                                      Restorations	each cavetto has a little gutter to let water out of it.
                                                                      Portions have been resotred in which the gutter is of
                                                                      course missed.  The foliage round this window is in
                                                                      severity - sweep and simplicity, the most admirable of the
                                                                      cathedral in the style opplsite cut as deep in the lobes
                                                                      as section a and the curves swept with the most admirable
                                                                      precision, the centre of the window is restored with
                                                                      this foliage imitated, miserably inf[p]erior - the sweep
                                                                      of the curve missed and the ridges gagged and all its
                                                                      beauty gone.
                                                                      Fig 7.  No 194.  is the junction of a second order of 
                                                                      tracery

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