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                                                                      	of the most common form when far above the eye   and fig
                                                                      6 its section with moulding on capital abacus;  this 
                                                                      being the rudest form is elongated or shortened accord-
                                                                      ing to its place. sometimes, as on the backs of the
                                                                      arches, rising into great nodding cr[o]ockets, and as it
                                                                      comes into places low on the front, gradually carved into
                                                                      rude leaves;  whi,e those most conspicuous which form
                                                                      the borders of the pediments of the porches are every
                                                                      one different - some, leaves, some, faces, some flowers -
                                                                      some rosettes - and so several above nodding over with a
                                                                      flat rose on each side, but every one with the great
                                                                      type kept of the double ball at first, thus in the capital
                                                                      of fig 1 the double ball is plainly seen, cut into
                                                                      leaves;  on others of the capitals outside, the entire
                                                                      ornament is nothing but a double or triple row of these
                                                                      knobbed vertebrae, entirely uncarved into the likness of
                                                                      anything,  not unlike a mass in curl papers, the capitals
                                                                      on the exterior being of two classes;  one this ugly
                                                                      type - the other a delicate leafage group much varied
                                                                      and very lovely, though irregular and inorganic - as seen
                                                                      in my drawing of north porch, while the interior capitals
                                                                      unite the two, having the long process above and as seen
                                                                      in fig 1 pretty leaves below - always varied, but never
                                                                       very del[d]iicatedelicate;  or perhaps not visible in the
                                                                      subdued light.  Another

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