CONSTRUCTION XIV. THE ROOF CORNICE 201

decorative; every wall, whether detached or roofed, being indiscriminately fringed with Arabic forms of parapet, more or less Gothicised, according to the lateness of their date.

I think there is no other point of importance requiring illustration respecting the roof itself, or its cornice; but this Venetian form of ornamental parapet connects itself curiously, at the angles of nearly all the buildings on which it occurs, with the pinnacled system of the North, founded on the structure of the buttress. This, it will be remembered, is to be the subject of the fifth division of our enquiry.

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