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                                                                      	however here traversed by a passage the width of the
                                                                      inner arcade along which this dentiled cornice runs:
                                                                      (In the place which I looked at it
                                                                      Next to this principal Venice shaft comes towards St Marks
                                                                      one of the old ill cut school, but deeper cut than most -
                                                                      more undulatory - not ribbed:  It has coarse heads and is
                                                                      very puzzling Its flower band below is of hawthorn
                                                                      leaves, and very spirited though not delicate, but the
                                                                      leaves have not the hawthorn fruit  nor flower and are
                                                                      perhaps imaginary.
                                                                          3rd.  x.  Towards St Marks.  Somewhat better - Coarse heads.
                                                                      One at the back with curled hair, markedly of
	x.  I missed the 2nd towards St Mark, which has curious[d]           olf time.
bald patent heads very ugly, but old.                                 Bon capitals.  4th.  The first Bon capital :  Its shaft is thicker
Now note.  Between this 3rd and the first Bon capital                 than the rest - vid palace book of p 27 1. and it shows
the Lion’s head change;  in the spandril;  from the                   an instant change in style.  In the previous capitals the
ribbed and living type with fluted ear, to a softer and               effect has been produced chiefly by bold ribs, arranged
coarser type, with a smooth ear:  The first of these                  often at daring angles;  on comparatively flat lobes, the
latter comes, between 3 and the 1st Bon.                              ribs continuing thick to the extremity of the leaf[c]: and
                                                                      generally a rib to each main lobe, and always separating
                                                                      at same point.  Palace book, p 24 fig  is an example
                                                                      from the Daged 9th capital, p 28 Gothic book.  But in
                                                                      the Bon capitals all is morbid undulation - not so much
                                                                      sweeping waves as indented waves:  like the crust of
                                                                      a damson pie, and now each leaf[c] has only 3 main ribs

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