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[upside down]                                                         		Doges palace.
                                                                      
splendid palace [?] [alley ?]                                         			     [buts ?]
[Door?] [at ?] [?]  & [?]                                             Traceried window of facade: next bridge of Sighs
where I was today                                                     canal - the  3rd of my catalogue.
                                                                      Jambs - section - &c . all like the next only
A 4th in brick                                                        plinth not divided under the shaft. though
at Ponte Erizzo                                                       varied bases all eight - Leaf capital to
                                                                      jambs: bold - well cut. no heads - but of
[diagram]    Parrocchia St Martin                                         the ruder and coarser or second period
                                                                       - & not of the delicate period = (Shafts spiral ___________A)
Palace with early balcony                                             as the others - with truncated blocks flat and
at arsenal                                                            bases all like the others with the firm
all 4ths                                                              ribbed leaf I have described so painfully,
                                                                      - but the central shaft heads have been
                                                                      thoroughly ill cut. all notched & jagged
                                                                      and I cannot make out their date: and
                                                                      thin leaves are less ably thrown. more upright
                                                                       - : in addition to this iron bar which
                                                                      crosses the window - inserted into these shaft
                                                                      heads - has split off their outer halves
                                                                      which have been restored most vilely
                                                                       - and yet though the restoration is white
                                                                       and looks quite new - it is hardly [worn?]
                                                                      [out?] than the work below - so that I
                                                                      thought it might be the original but - cleaned
                                                                       -only the section is shallower above
                                                                      [diagram] in the old [diagram] in the new.

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