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                                                                      	      No 176,  177,  178.
                                                                      
                                                                      	The most important of the tomb inside the count I have
                                                                      daguerred - it is remarkable for its bold and beauti-
                                                                      ful brackets two carrying the canopy and two the sarco-
                                                                      phagus one of the latter is drawn on No 17[4]4 pure section
                                                                      and front and side profile, the section of one of the 
                                                                      former on No 176, curious for its anomalously lev[b]elled
                                                                      ridge in the middle;  in the leaf lines the first inmost
                                                                      is  pure bracket section - the second the edge of leaf
                                                                      the third the central rib of leaf - the way they rise out
                                                                      of the roll is extraordinaryly beautiful   On the backs
                                                                      part of this section is given as traced on the stone.
                                                                      No 177 shows the shafts seen from inside I never
                                                                      saw a vaulting rib so carried before.






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