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fol. 2v			Synopsis of Contents (3.59-68)
      
      
      
     Chap 6th.  That truths of Colour are unimportant*
     Chap 7th.  That truths of size and distance are less important than of form*
     <Chap 8th.  Application of preceding tests generally to the works>*
     Part II .  Sect II .
 5   		Of General Truths .
     Chap 1st.  Of the Principles of selection of old & modern masters*
     Chap 2 .    Of Truth of Tone
     Chap 3 .    Of Truth of Colour .*
     Chap 4th.   Of Truth of Space.  1st. ^  {By painting} Of Foregrounds.*
10   Chap 5th.   Of Truth of Space   2.  by Distances .*
     Chap 6th.   Of Truth of Light.*
     Sec . III .
     			Of Truth of Skies .
     Chap 1st .  Of Open sky
15   Chap 2 .     Of The region of Cirrus
     Chap 3 .     Of Region of Stratus*
     Chap 4th .   Of Raincloud .
     Sec IV .
     	      Of Truth of <mountain> earth .
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fol. 3r		unpublished 'Chap 6th.  Of Truth of Light' (equivalent 3.343f)
      
      
      
     you can see every pebble separately .  Whatever detail or projections are
     on <a> {the} high light. as the sun penetrates into every chink and cranny of
     them - can cast no shadows . and have no dark sides - and therefore -
     are indistinctly and imperfectly seen. and ^ {indeed} unless very large and	
 5   important are not seen atall .  Whence arises the general rule .
     There can be no detail on the high light.  It is all blaze .
     But whatever projections and details <are> exist on the surface
     turned obliquely to the light. each - however small - has its dark side
     & shadow . and every one is seen. more {& more} distinctly as the object is turned
10   more and more from the light.  The <*.*>result of this is - that as <nearl>
     every object not polished has more or less of texture on its surface -
     and nearly all have rough{n}ess & projections . & detail . in some degree -
     a general tone of shadow is obtained on these oblique surfaces . far
     <greater> deeper than could be accounted for by the mere fact of the
15   oblique fall of the light .  and they sink . practically . into what artists
     call Middle tint .          Again . <on> the Dark side - though <free
     from> entirely inaccessible to the direct light - is very strongly
     affected by the reflected light - which as it were fills the whole
     atmosphere - & illuminates every object open & exposed to it . and
20   ^ {it is also} very often so energetically illumined by accidental reflected lights -

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