[VB.55L]                                                              [VB.55]							55
                                                                      
		[drawing]                                                           [architectural change]
                                                                      
		Nave Valence                                                        [?]
	The abacus plinth [?]                                                of every style of architecture
	[crowns?] the vaulting                                               which has in its turn prevailed
	pilasters though it has                                              & been superseded, since the
	no base                                                              11th century, to enable us to
                                                                      			not only
                                                                      form a just estimate of the work
                                                                      of the leading [?] architects
                                                                      of the time: but of that
                                                                      of the second rate workmen
                                                                      			    upon
                                                                      contemporaneously employed on inferior
                                                                      buildings: and to obtain a
                                                                      tolerably accurate conception of
                                                                      the appearance of the city at
                                                                      any given epoch
                                                                      
                                                                      	[diagram] [?][?]
                                                                      
                                                                      Next however without pains
                                                                      for not only are the buildings [of?]
                                                                      these various epochs
                                                                      mingled at random: [the?]
                                                                      [?] [newest?] being of
                                                                      course the most frequent

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