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                                                                      				    BACON PALACE
                                                                      Bases.	I am thoroughly at fault about  their bases:  the only
                                                                      octagonal without leaves that I have come across - more
                                                                      so still about the capitals - whose section (inside the
                                                                      bell and outside line the flowers) is rudely given in fig 2
                                                                      same page :  They are likest in style and flow to the
                                                                      best one of the Doge palace 3rd order, but infinitely
                                                                      more masculine, all in red marble, all the leaves springing
                                                                      from root  and touching abacus with their point - very few
                                                                      rolling waves of the bell in each - I think no ribs;  they
                                                                      are kept light in effect by the absence of all ponderous
                                                                       projection;  and then made sublime by the simplicity of th
                                                                      their flow - set off by the autumnal glow and smooth
                                                                      sea-like surface of their marble:  Ithink they are the
                                                                      finest capitals -  for pure surface work:  and for an
                                                                      effect of sublimity with  richness and grace, I have
                                                                      ever seen.
                                                                      The windows on these pillars are not less remarkable -
                                                                      their contour is seen in Dog:  but observe the character of
                                                                      their transition:  They would almost be pure 5th were it
                                                                      not that instead of their lower joint being purely
                                                                      segmental of circle, as a opp  it begins to turn atthe
                                                                      end in sympathy with the ogee.  Explain this in my
                                                                      first chapter on 5th order.  These windows are all
                                                                      worked with c section in the proportion given at

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