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The reference is to the 3rd Capital of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of the Lower Arcade.
Notebook M p.162. ‘The Third is called Second at p 4 Palace book.’ 2nd Capital: Heads: This is Ruskin’s 3rd capital in Appendix 16. Works, 10.468 - 470. Appendix, 16. The Capitals of the Ducal Palace: List of Subjects. See also: Works, 10.386 ‘there are in all thirty-six great pillars supporting the lower story; and that these are to be counted from right to left, because then the more ancient of them come first: and that, thus arranged, the first, which is not a shaft but a pilaster, will be the support of the Vine angle; the eighteenth will be the great shaft of the Fig-tree angle; and the thirty-sixth, that of the Judgment angle.’
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