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	  	The base of the eatern shaft has I think been                       Great shafts of Piazzetta.  With what a just feeling the architects
  	originally the best cut;  and most grotesque                       who gave them their bases rejected the usual lea[f]f form, as
	  	and as being more delicate or more in the way of                  insipid on so large a scale and for isolated shafts!
	the crowd, has been almost entirely worn away:  Keeping              and  gave their octagonal plinths:  with the alternate
letters as for the other;  a is quite defaced;  b has I thi[n]        angles filled up by groups of two figures each, stunted
think a shoulder of mutton - c is plain enough, they have             and grotesque but full of life;  while the difficult
two baskets of the common water melon of the capitals of              intermediate space is occupied by the utensils of their
           palace:  vid Mr Brown’s note d is quite defaced but I      trade.
	 think has had faggots of wood.  This base is indeed a               	 Let a d opposite be the eastern - d c the southern or
	great loss.  The section of the base is at p 4w  St M.               sea side of the shaft plinths:  then their order of sub-
the flattened roll as usual in ancient work:  following               jects is as follows:  In the western, or red granite shaft
the line x y2 z2 above, the figures filling the corners of            a. vintners one pouring wine out of a bottle into flat
square:  The length of x y or y2 one side of octagon is               cups;  the other drinking gredily;  a large cask, horizon-
3 " 2˝:  The vertical height 6 p 1 p 4 w) is circa 1 " 2              tal between them j[h]oins them to the angle.
	a b, 7 inch, b c 6 in;  at b is the joint and                        b.  smiths with large pincers and heavy hammers, striking
above all is the massy granite.  The base below p is found            furiously in spite of their dwarfed figure ad crouching
by 3 plain octagonal steps having their angles to the                 position on the anvil between.
side of the octagon roll on side of the octagon of the uppe[r]        c.  figures much defaced, but they have between them a
 step is 5 " 6 and of lower ost 7 " 1˝ the shaft at d is              basket of small fish, capitally carved, as full as it can
15 " 10 round                                                         hold, and another with four fine thunnies.
The western shaft is of red granite shattered at its                  d.  They have too small vessels, one covered the other
base so that one cannot obtain its measure:  but 14 " 4               not, I think either roasting apples or turnips.
round at (circa) 2 " 6 above the base.  This base is                  The eatsern, or grey shaft is much more defaced;  hardly
broader than that of the eastern it is drawn at p 4 3 1  ab           any vestiga of its figures left.  Vid. opp.
is about 8 inches   b c vertical about 1 " 9 and a side of
the outer octagon lowest step of the three 7 " 0
There is a rash note of this base also on the first
yellow pages of this book

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