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                                                                      	passage  Two more pilasters - The range of seven are
                                                                      placed in the distance of about nearly four to six of the
                                                                      external pillars - :  i.e.   o   o   o   o   internal:
                                                                      	                             o  o  o  o  o   external
                                                                      and of the whole set, the capitals are about six inches
                                                                      lower than the outer capitals, while the wooden bracket
                                                                      beam reaches much higher;  nearly to the lips of the
                                                                      lions in the s[a]pandrils
                                                                      The section of these morbid capitals at p 25 1 palace book
                                                                      The bases are A simple, but with good ribbed leaves:
                                                                      now choked with whitewash.
                                                                      Of the fine old series of capitals described at p 28
                                                                      Gothic book it is to be noted further - of the 7th;
                                                                      it has on the side a; opposite, the daged bird with three
                                                                      young ones in a leafy hollow, quite lovely;  especially
                                                                      the rounding of the breasts of the nestlings:  at b; a
                                                                      bird also feeding young but now with a crest on head and
                                                                      plume of ostrich like feathers in tail.  At c a single bird
                                                                      with its beak straight out, emerging from leaves:  fore-
                                                                      shortened head, and see a leaf nodding over upon its fore-
                                                                      head, nothing can possibly be finer for effective compositn[io]
                                                                      All these birds most delicately plumed with razed feather.
                                                                      The leaf belt of this capital is like though not quite so
                                                                      rich as that at p 231 Palace book.

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