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                                                                      rare door	as one crosses the bridge is a door of the common cabled
                                                                      square with ogee above, but having its lintel carried by
                                                                      leafbrackets awkwardly set at the angles this is rare in
                                                                      Venice.  Then on the right, beside the canal, is an open
                                                                      arcade of most pure and beautiful pointed arches , and one
                                                                      perfect round one of the same height, all worked with
                                                                      sec     and to be especially mentioned with other examples
                                                                      of      the kind:  They all have the singular keystone
                                                                      d. p 49 French book, and the plain early shaft B.
                                                                      Then still on the right we come to a house, nearly ruined,
                                                                      and very small but with 3 at very neat and characteristic
                                                                      windows - 4th with          neatly set together closely
                                                                      on the abacus of the on ne peut plus simple shaft,
                                                                      without a base[,], fig 1 p 48 1 French book.  Make the shaft
                                                                      itself about the height of the capital and window to its
                                                                      point together, and put them on the plinth fig 2 with two
                                                                      terminal pilasters of the same section all but the little
                                                                      fillet below roll - and the thing is complete.
                                                                      Besides these, is a fourth 4th larger with sec A p 48
                                                                      F[B]rench book, and finally a 4th in plain brick p 48 B.
                                                                      With these curious instances may be compared the rose
                                                                      windows in the upper story of the side of a small house
                                                                      in the Campi[n]ello delle Shape between the San Jacopo
                                                                      dell’ Orio, and the Frari.  These I have dagued. they are
                                                                      remarkable first for their general rough chiselling,
                                                                      which I hitherto thought always a sign of recent work
                                                                      secondly for the curious drawing of their
                                                                      

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