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                                                                      	cut literally into hollow shells:  and the leaves are
                                                                      laboriously finished inside:  But there is no delight
                                                                      nor precision about it, like Marino Falaiers;  The Pedestal
                                                                      bit under the Judgment of Solomon is very base and vulgar
                                                                      all curled loves, and heavy:  utterly differing in all
                                                                      respects from the other angle leafage.
                                                                      Its base is of course an addition of later times, and
                                                                      looks it.  It is a mere ring fastened down by meagre
                                                                      straight scaley bands;  full of coarse drill holes
                                                                      instead of the noble shiel[d]dlike leaves.  It is rough
                                                                      chiselled.  Its section at p 56 1 pal. book.
                                                                             Finally[,], the pilaster capital has leafage like the angle one
                                                                      meaningless figures with swords, maces, and shields, - one 
                                                                      with a winged cap:  (This is the half pillar next
                                                                      Porta della Carta.
                                                                             I have now to examine the leafage of these pillars, clo[a]sing
                                                                      them b[v]y their sections
                                                                             Section 1st Order 1st.  At p 43 pal. book A is with great care
                                                                      through the side of the simplest capital B. through its
                                                                      L.  C. p 43 plan of the roll a under abacus b
                                                                      Eight great leaves with broad fillets are set on the
                                                                      angles Eight small ones are set between which I shall call
                                                                      breast leaves.  Vid p 46 1 Pal. book which shows

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