[M2.99L]                                                              [M2.99]								99
                                                                      
                                                                      		The ribs are beautifully rounded and wave from side to
                                                                      		side as they ascend in the breast leaves:  The br.
                                                                      		leaves have 7 ribs    the . leaves 5 arranged as at A and
                                                                      		B. p 7 w. St M.  The breast leaves instead of
                                                                      		nodding over now bent up and hold the figures in their
                                                                      		hollow instead of on their backs while the angle
                                                                      		leaves running up with their long straight stems all the
                                                                      		way to the abacus then nod over;  and flinging their
                                                                      		lowest lobes back and up, so that their central ribs
                                                                      		b and c take the curve C. p 7w.  with their lobes e f
                                                                      		they just - with the extreme point {reach over to &} touch
	This point of contact is not more than a ¼ of an inch                		the correspondent raised lobes of the breast leaves;
literally a point to the eye, and underneath it the leaves            		and with their central lobe they fall back to the bell,
are cut clear, but fr the most part they are worked solid             		as seen in section B.
out from the bell;  as thick as this - say an inch                    	The 1st.  Under the Noah:  This remarkable pilaster capital is
and ½ an inch where they lie over each other.                         		altogether on this system.  It is a pilaster with three
                                                                      		bead chamfers and half a shaft, given in section at
                                                                      		D  p 7w.  The part a b is the filling up after the fire.
                                                                      		The half shaft has the entire section and flower band
                                                                      		at 6w;  the pilaster has only the section down to a in
                                                                      		A at 6w  It is this half shaft which has the boy with
                                                                      		scissors;  the pilaster has the most quaint and lovely
                                                                      		little figure with expanded bird;  the recesses of the
                                                                      		leaves in this pilaster are not undercut;  but go straight
                                                                      		back; like a foliation and the lobes are something more
                                                                      		severe than {in} the [?] other shafts, where

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