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                                                                      	 mass of capitals belonging to the former period;  and q
                                                                      (25 to 27) of the recent restoration.
 	16	0		0                                                             But I was excessively puzzled by the gradual improvement
	15	0		0                                                              in work shown in my notes from the 28th to the 35th where-
	14	0		0                                                              in one finds oneself unquestionably in finer time, - nor 
	13	0		0                                                              less puzzled - because these bad capitals come under the
	12	0		0   0   0                                                      noble lion headed tracery windows, where we have the finest[.]
	11	0                                                                 Now then bad capitals appear to me restorations of the time
	10	0                                                                 of the upper arcade inside:  q is that arcade of the time
	 9	0                                                                              ,of the upper windows towaqrds cancal?  Again:  from the
	 8	0                                                                 28th capital to the 11th, going round on piazzetta side,
	 7	0                                                                 we have a remarkably picturesque group, full of quaintness
	 6	0                                                                 and vihour;  all its leaves ribbed and severe.
	 5	0                                                                 The 12th is of the time of inner arcade:
	 4	0                                                                 The 13th 14th and 15th I think same time - the clumsy time
	 3	0                                                                 The 16th Begins the work of the Bons and all henceforward
	 2	0                                                                 is different.
		0                                                                   Now the 16th carries the wall which separates M. Lorenzo’s
                                                                      room from the sala di Scruturio as the 12th carries main 
                                                                      saloon wall:
                                                                      This 12th is the one with the pilaster;  and I cannot at
                                                                      all make out

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