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                                                                      				  DUCAL PALACE   TRACERIES
                                                                      		Cavette better given at fig 2.  The cavette being
                                                                      deeper than a	       the filling of it projects as an
                                                                      oval:  overlapping also its edge:  almost coming in  con-
                                                                      tact with roll:  It is cut off short and flat and is very
                                                                      2	ungraceful, though somewhat grand.   Each of the five
                                                                      rolls, in the C. ft of height, comes twice round to the
                                                                      side on which it starts:  and then  touches the top or
                                                                      bottom - on the side opposite - going twice and a
                                                                      half round shaft - thus dividing it also in five.
                                                                      Fig 1 is the base of this shaft;  very flat in cavette,
                                                                      having in one shaft - four delicate leaves ribbed -
                                                                      of the outer arcade pattern and curled over in the other
                                                                      two lions heads, and two leaves arranged most singularly
                                                                      as opp:  Entire height from d to a2 about 9 in:  The lower
                                                                      member of this base is most singular, raised out of the
                                                                      plinth of the window:  and actually this plinth is in two
                                                                      pieces under the base, as opp.  It would be difficult to
                                                                      draw in perspective.
                                                                      The management of the lateral capital, with its semicir-
                                                                      cular twisted  shaft, is shown in No 64 fig 2.  There
                                                                      ought to be two lions heads, with a leaf between over the
                                                                      shaft, but there are broken away on this side, and
                                                                      injured on the other:  All are magnificent:  altogether
                                                                      different in style from the centr[a]al capitals - and as
                                                                      grand as  could be .  The noblest instance I have yet seen
                                                                      of a banded capital:  for so it is in great part;  It pro-
                                                                      jects boldly however

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