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                                                                      	breast leaves carrying the figures, wave alternately to the
                                                                      right and left.
                                                                      The Point contact of the leaves, and their concave to convex
                                                                      flow are most graceful:  Their leaf bands sharp and lovely,
                                                                      Their cutting simple - masculine;  and effective.  Every way
                                                                      right:  not likely to be broken off as the more elaborate
                                                                      leafage and beautifully Proutian in effect of line.
                                                                      They are on the whole, the best of the palace except the
                                                                      lovely sea angle.
                                                                             The 7th, 9th, 10th 12th 21st are all on this plan, h[j]ardly
                                                                      varying.
                                                                             The 29th is a copy of it by the Bon school and most
                                                                      instructive in its inferiority.  The main plan being kept
                                                                      the ribs are fined down, and therefore do not tell in effect
                                                                      upon the eye;  they look half washed out;  the lobes are
                                                                      confused in their lie, and very poor:  and the angle leaves
                                                                      have a recess instead of a rib at the bottom: x   Then the
                                                                      Bon leaves have a less certain outline;  are more softly
                                                                      modulated and are a little undercut so as to have only
                                                                      their edges visible:  now in the early ones, the e[d]dge is
                                                                      even cut a little up;  so as to be seen from below and
                                                                      like the light strongly showing the outline.  The ribs are
                                                                      clumsily thick - near, but they are well seen where they

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