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                                                                             MILAN  ST AMBROSIO
                                                                      		both ways from the abacus, of the capital, a b b c and
                                                                      the curve is as accurate as could be drawn from the
                                                                      determination of the ordinates of the points, d e f
                                                                      with the condition of the curves being perpendicular
                                                                      at f to fg h. is the section of the band which forms
                                                                      the complicated pattern of the left hand arch:  it is
                                                                      also though more rudely vut that of the stalks of the
                                                                      leaves in the ornament below and even of the narrowest
                                                                      and most simple braid of the one inch moulding brick it: x
                                                                      in fact all the bands have two angular furrows cut
                                                                      along them with the chisel:  in distant effect they
		as well as of the                     moulding - How vile           are divided into three by two dark lines, which are
it is in penmanship                   how beautiful when              the time stained ridges.  The ridges branch to each
properly gifted with substance and light and shade, and               indent of every leaf[r]:  the furrows being cut from the
how much depends on the slight and graceful                           points of the foils;  at i is the centre of the
variations of its curvature by interlacing, and on                    abacus ornament of the bird capital on the
the Proutish richness of filling lines:  note that                    extreme right real size, and at k one of the leaves
at the base this moulding fits thus - and is                          enlarged, showing theprinciple of the whole:
gradually at about the seventh or eighth loop made                    there are four such leaves on one side of the abacus:
alternate                                                             five, more crowded on the other - so curiously
                                                                      enough, a single fanshaped leaf has been turned in one
                                                                      out of the 13 loops of the ovolo moulding, as seen at
                                                                      1. and apparently rejected:  and the loops have not
                                                                      quite filled their places, and have therefore been
                                                                      pulled out and made more stalky on the opposite side:
                                                                      it is curious to see ornament so thoroughl[e]y classical
                                                                      Classical Gothic  and fine mixed with statues so rude:  and it must
                                                                      be one of my

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