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                                                                          THE VENETIAN DOGTOOTH
                                                                      form of the dentil resulted from the ultimate chiselling
                                                                      away of the edge of the slab of overlaid stone:  The
                                                                      Dogtooth - a form hardly les[f]s influential at Venice;  and
                                                                      for more extended in its use elsewhere:  resulted from a
                                                                      process still more simple:  It is in the early examples
                                                                      merely a hacked angle a opp.  This ornament is constant
                                                                      in timber architecture:  as in the Swiss cottage:  and
                                                                      it is used variously on the timbers of modern boats
                                                                      at Venice, in the form b.
                                                                      In its first architectural form, I find it in the
                                                                      most interesting windows at p 9 Gothic book, clerestory
                                                                      lights rather, which are perched above the top of every
                                                                      aisle window in St John and Paul:  The sub arch decoration
                                                                      I have only met with to-day, at the Frari and here -
                                                                      8th January, we have I before met with this form of the dog
                                                                      tooth:  The stilting of the string in the middle of the
                                                                      arch is curius - to be noted with other rudenesses of
                                                                      the same kind:  and observe here also, the very simplest
                                                                      form of capital:  the pilaster with its ordinary moulding,
                                                                      mere twisted round and flattened under the abacus.
                                                                       It is altogether rude base and all - a most precious
                                                                      example of early work.  The top of the nave pier arch with

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