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                                                                      	moulding not only  is it not true to a circular segment - 
                                                                      really waves as it goes round:  and finally bends into a
                                                                      slight horseshoe form. p 47 French book.  Note the
                                                                      shortened dentils above the joint, they are 5 and diamond
                                                                      above, 12 below, and rather flat, section at A p 47 1
                                                                      careful;  note interval of fat between dentil and chamfer
                                                                      no wider than dentil.  The flat of cusp trefoil is rough
                                                                      chiselled.  The cusp entirely lost in soffit above the
                                                                      joint, and for fill six inches above abacus.  The shaft
                                                                      head B. a beautifully cut pure R. like Sageldo balcony,
                                                                      with a round ball flower     merely incised in one -
                                                                      opened thus     in the other, the angle leaves
                                                                      curled from     the spiral with perfect grace and simpli-
                                                                      city.  The pil head is C. all without bases on plinth D
                                                                      There are two sets of these windows of three each and one
                                                                      det, and I am glad I happened to go to them after the pal.
x.    shown the more by the flat instead of the cavette beside        Sagredo of which in general workmanship they closely re-
      them.  The usual cavetto much destroys the effect of            mind me.
      this dentil.                                                    In dark weather, nothing can be more lovely than these
                                                                      windows - their dentils stand out like a chain of silver x
                                                                      their rare and simple moulding leaves a deep shade within;
                                                                      their cusps are of exquisite grace in the flow;  their
                                                                      slender shafts detached half a foot from the recessed
                                                                      window, and their arches look fr[o]om below nearly pure
                                                                      points, just crisped at the extremities into the ogg

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