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This section given better at p 51 Palace book.                        			No 12.  Contains measures of bases (DUCAL
			Section of great cornice of lower story of                         				PALACE  UPPER ARCADE)
Doge’s palace;  a is the level which re-                              Great Cornice 1.	than such bevels usually:  hardly preceivable by the
ceives the bases of the pillars of second                             eye.  Now observe that the distance f f2 - 2 " 6 7/8 is
arcade.  f g the great horizontal roll                                Bases	only 1 1/8 inch greater than the half of the circum-
which joins that of the great arches;                                 ferences of the shaft above balustrade:  allowing for
e f the square pannels of ros es:  I could                            increment of shaft it is very little more than its true
only to-day get the following measures.                               half:  at all events, the true half is not outside of i
	a b		  1¾ in. singularly small                                       in Fig 3  or g2 in fig 1.  The line g2e in fig 1
				c d		  4                                                          should therefore  cut the line in h in the middle of the
	a-f I	   "	  7                                                       side of the square:  at which point the bevel b c of fig
	a e		11¼                                                             2 ought , as at n; to coincide with the suare:  But the
                                                                      line i h is drawn exactly from   the meeting of this
			Further measures of this lower ground arcade                       bevel with d h or from the natural point of its turn
		Round the great corner shaft (Institia) at base                     when the whole moulding of base is thrown outside of f p3
							10 " 4 1/3                                                     Lower arcade 1 Hence the line h i is shorter than h n vide measures;  and
	---  ---  ---  --- underneath wreath at top	10 "    1/2              h n if the triangular ornament is on the diagonal, must
Round the other shafts, at base		 7 " 8                               be shorter than n v2 and b i than v 2 I  The adjustment
---  ---  ---  ---  ---  at top		 7 " 4                               of the curves to their conditions must much add to their
Height of Institia shaft from base to wreath	 6 " 1 3/4               beauty.
---  ---  ---  other [ither] shafts	 7 " 7                            Fig 5 is a rude profile down the cen re of the leaf at k
Intervals between shaft and shaft  the first	11 " 9 3/4               its extremity - as that of all the rest, being somewhat
---  ---  ---  ---  ---  ---  --  ---  ---  -  2nd	11 " 5 1/2         lower than its root.
	Generally					11 " 6                                                 Noah and Vine. 	As a piece of carving, the vineleaves of the Noah
	(Counting from corner column)                                        at the anngle hext bridge of sighs are the most delicate wok
                                                                      of the whole:  Not only have they been cut out like a net
					See over.                                                        with a complete hollow

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