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                                                                      	          DUCAL PALACE  S. of C.
                                                                      	is grossly inferior to the work behind - and strangest of
                                                                      all the head, no 7 being cracked through the nose and
                                                                      cheek;  the eye on the inside is deep drilled in the eye
                                                                      ball, but the outside left eye - is smooth eyeballed
                                                                      or else filled up with a substance which hardly yields
                                                                      to the knife, but feels like stone, also the right cheek
                                                                      of this head is aell marked and felt - that on the left is
                                                                      comparatively rude and shallow and feebly scratched and
                                                                      the extremities of the curls of the hear are also much
                                                                      less complete in the turn, and less shaprly cut on the
                                                                      left side.  Yet the cracked  parts seen and correspond
                                                                      exactly.
                                                                      1.	A common bearded head;  very coarsely cut
                                                                      2.	In coarse neck armour and ugly round helmet or
                                                                      cap
                                                                      3  A bearded head with long pointed ears.
                                                                      4  Hair on the forehead curled in spirals all aong, just
                                                                      like the moulding on the Apse of Murano.  The nose sunk in
                                                                      between cheeks, and very ugly.
                                                                      5th.  A common head - blunt nosed and every way bad.
                                                                      6th.  Utterly different in conception from all the rest,
                                                                      It must I think be a portrait, it’s thin, thoughtful, full
                                                                      of dignity, pure Italian - It wears a cap with two winged
                                                                      lions thereon, and very small a d is thoroughly Dantesque
                                                                      and fine, though its chiselling same in manner as that of
                                                                      the others only more careful.
                                                                      7.	Bearded head, the cracked one.  8  a negro detestably
                                                                      ugly only better chiselled than those ofupper arcade.

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[Version 0.05: May 2008]