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                                                                      	other side, one with a cusp, all beautifully worked;
                                                                      Among the other capitals there is as much inequality of
                                                                      workmanship as in the old series.
                                                                      Observe also, from p 27 1 palace book, that all these
                                                                      Bon shafts are from an inch to an inch and a half on the
                                                                      circumference thicker than any of the set towards the
                                                                      sea;  and this quite consistently.
                                                                      Observe:  the height of the arcade;  from the top of the
                                                                      great roll above 4 foils, to the top of the lowermost
                                                                      inner plinth, is about 22 feet 2 in.
                                                                      Opposite these Bon pillars are a series, now engaged in
                                                                      the wall, which carry wooden brackets and on the top of
                                                                      these part of the inner wall:  These capitals are
                                                                      thoroughly well chiselled;  and of the worst and most
                                                                      effeminate Von school;  no figures;  all crumpled and
                                                                      commonplace leavage;  they look even later than outer
                                                                      capitals;  of Ponte delle Corta time perhaps.  But their
                                                                      arrangement is very stange;  Two pilasters with
                                                                      florid heads flank the gate near Porta della Casta,
                                                                      to the staircase;  Then come seven shafts, and one
                                                                      pilaster ending range:  Then:  opposite the three doubt-
                                                                      ful columns, 13-15 p 28 Gothic book (1-3 p 47 above)
                                                                      are a shaft and two flanking pilasters;  and on
                                                                      opposite side of

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