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                                                                      	    No 13.  DUCAL PALACE LOWER ARCADE.
                                                                      	between them and the pilatser;  but every leaf is bent
                                                                      and waved like reality:  and the surface so smooth that
                                                                      it cannot be believed it was ever chiselled: - smooth
                                                                      almost to lustre:  except one leaf thrown to the front
                                                                      or outer angle on purpose: which is curved with its entire
                                                                      reticulation: cross bars and all: in raised ribs, from its
                                                                      undulating surface:  I never saw anything so far carried
                                                                      in imitative sculpture:  The love of surface tracery has
                                                                      much to do with it - for exactly the same thing is done
                                                                      with the veins of the figure, which are almost painfully
                                                                      distinct  The type of form about the chest, unless
                                                                      intended for the contracted form of an old man, is very
                                                                      weak and poor:  miserable if compared with Greek types:
                                                                        The moulding of the lower arches is the weak point
                                                                        of the architecture, as the anatomy is of the scu,pture;
                                                                      	It is certainly mean and harsh;[p] only saved by its grand
                                                                      tore - the row od diamonds is far too small - and wholly
                                                                      ineffective - acid and greeting instead of energetic:  The
                                                                      A	cornice on last page 1 is fine, I find the height of
                                                                      its upper level a from the ground is 20 ft 3 in I found
                                                                      it 20 ft 4 in with a loose line.
                                                                      Round shafts No 13	  Church of St John and Paul:  Note further, that
                                                                      this interior of this church has pure round pillars com-
                                                                      posed of flat sepeatate stones, as in margin, with flat
                                                                      capitals;  and that nothing can

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