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                                                                      	Doges palace;  beginning of description:  At canal of
                                                                      Ponte de Sofini  First a grand story up a level of top
                                                                      of pointed arches in front of magnificently solid
                                                                      masonry  with three plain oblong barred windows left or,
                                                                      I think, openedsince.  Above one of these the effect of
                                                                      the palace is not improved by a large modern stove chimney
                                                                      something however like a grauntletted arm  brandishing in
                                                                      its fist a cross truncheon with two trenches like
                                                                      opescula at the ends.   Above this solid masonry
                                                                      separated only by a line of dentils, runs the ancient
                                                                      moulding - which I must draw and above it a plinth (the
                                                                      continuation of that of the front) added afterwards.

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