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                                                                      	   No 170      ST MARKS  FACADE 
	N. B.  Not now 14 w but 90 1 fragment cut out and mezzo-             	Capitals at p St M.  Their general profile is a very
tinted.                                                               beautiful conic section;  fig 3 and this is exhibited
                                                                      on their edges by the keel like ridge left by their
                                                                      cutting away as seen in section fig 2 and profile
                                                                      fig 4  which gives the ornament on the internal angle.
                                                                      	The stones have howev[b]er from sometimes instead of eight
                                                                      rays.  I never saw so subtle a combination of concave and
                                                                      convex, and right lines.
                                                                      The leaf patterns are all cut hollow only supported
                                                                      by irregular props, as seen in section fig 2.  They
                                                                      are varied in every capital.
                                                                          No 170	Detached Shaft, with lily head, in piazzetta de Lioni
                                                                      Corner capital	Vid notes at p 197.
                                                                      	It has the loveliest section I ever saw, carefully given on
                                                                      No 170 more especially its lovely inner line;  which I
                                                                      only saw by the accident of its lower basket work being
                                                                      all broken away;  and it is indeed only formed by the
                                                                       chisel within side of the bracket, by a kind of instinct
                                                                      and it is of no use, except like a kind of fine under
                                                                      anatomy. ruling the outside lines:  but when these are
                                                                      gone, it is left - noy so smooth as I have drawn it, for
                                                                      the chisel work roughly in the dark - but quite as beautif
                                                                      ful in main contact

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