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[DB.16L]                                                              [DB.16]							16
                                                                      
[House No 45]                                                         No.16		   House. No 45
                                                                          In the bottom of a dark & filthy alley
[drawing]	observe this moulding                                       
		is [mistakenly ?] represented below                                 	Very remarkable for its arched masonry
                                                                      Type	filling up the interval between
semi circle	[drawing]                                                 	mouldings - though quite flat and
above this point                                                      	plain. - the moulding forming
                                                                      	the ogee continuously and
[drawing]                                                             Masonry  the other the stilted arch.    Leaves on Cables
			arms [defaced?]                                                    
			Two ugly supporting                                                Archivolt breadth    The point of the flat stones
			in [?] cusps                                                       		       are sharp and neat - all
			on angle above                                                     Archivolt Section    put in as seen at the
                                                                      	side- which makes the entire door especially
[diagram]                                                             	picturesque - all broken in and out like
                                                                      	Fondaco de Turchi - bricks & smooth
	This section [discreet?] with all the                                	   stones. and deep finials all grand
	in depth			joints                                                    Jamb Section  - (The arms are effaced -two
                                                                      	ugly kneeling [supporters?] in council caps
                                                                      	an angel above as usual). and the joints
                                                                               of all in defferent places & very short which
                                                                      	makes me think it old.
                                                                      Pil Head  finial on
                                                                      	a kind of bracket
                                                                      	thus
                                                                      
                                                                      		finial on a bracket		[drawing]
                                                                      		& very simple & [curvy?]

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