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                                                                      		     No 49, 50.   CA PISANI
                                                                      		4 foil, a of A is a very akward affair, fig 6 and its
                                                                      section added to the tracery bar is fig 2 its fillet note
                                                                      much deeper than Foscari.  One of the capitals of the
                                                                      arcade is drawn in the centre;  its angle leaves are
                                                                      entirely detached from the bell except at their roots,
                                                                      above;  and they join tips round - like hands:  I never
                                                                      saw anything so daring  The bell below is with exquisite
                                                                      feeling, made very plain, with straight ribs and
                                                                      lines of lobe.  Not one of the capital is however like
                                                                      another. though all are equally daring   I never saw so
                                                                      small an abacus, or so little curved a bell, vide section
                                                                      4.  Pils at end fig 5 - heading and abacus the
                                                                      same;  Bases Lombard vide House book.  Eight windows
                                                                      of 6th order, with heavy but rude f[p]inials, at the sides,
                                                                      highly curious,being worked with section 3  d e with roll
                                                                      for[d] dentil.  Not e shallow cavette like Foscari, while it
                                                                      is deep in the fig 2.  All three windows are now lathed
                                                                      and plastered up, but I doubtnot they have had cusps [cuspa] like
                                                                      the rest.  The lions heads in main arcade arevery fine
                                                                      in the flow of their hair, evidently worked by the artist
                                                                      of the capitals.
                                                                       No 49.  Fig 1.  Cornice of St Gregorio vid no
                                                                      		Fig 2.  Base of the circular angle shaft of the Great 
                                                                      		Foscari.

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