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                                                                      	The ribs are beautifully rounded and wave from side to
                                                                      side as they ascend in the breast leaves:  The bi-
                                                                      leaves have 7 ribs    the L. l[x]eaves 5 arranged as at A and
                                                                      B. p 7 w. St M.  The breast leaves instead of
                                                                      nodding over now bent u[y]p and hold the figures in their
                                                                      hollow instead of on their backs while the angle
                                                                      leaves running up with their long straight stems all the
                                                                      way to the abacus then nod over;  and flinging their
                                                                      lowest lobes back and up, so that their central ribs
                                                                      b and c take the curve C. p 7w.  with their lobes e f
                                                                      they just - with the extreme point reach over to and touch
                                                                      the correspondent raised lobes of the breast leaves;
	This point of contact is not more than a ¼ of an inch                and with their central lobe they fall back to the bell,
literally a point to the eye, and underneath it the leaves            as seen in section B.
are cut clear, but fr the most part they are worked solid               The 1st.  Under the Noah:  This remarkable pilaster capital is
out from the bell;  as thick as this - say an inch                    altogether on this system.  It is a pilaster with three
and ½ an inch where they lie over each other.                         bead chamfers and half a shaft, given in section at
                                                                      D  p 7w.  The part a b is the filling up after the fire.
                                                                      The half shaft has the entire section and flower band
                                                                      at 6w;  the pilaster has only the section down to a in
                                                                      A and 6w  It is this half shaft which has the boy with
                                                                      scissors;  the pilaster has the most quaint and lovely
                                                                      little figure with expanded bird;  the recesses of the
                                                                      leaves in this pilaster are not undercut;  but go straight
                                                                      back; like a foliation and the lobes are something more
                                                                      severe than in the other shafts, where

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