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[M.96L]                                                               [M.96]
[diagram]                                                             No 72	Ducal palace Traceries	96
                                                                      
                                                                      		equal in breadth on both sides, should = a b in 68 D. which
                                                                      		was traced on it. the inside of the cusp should look
                                                                      	1	like fig 1 opp; and its outside fig 2 68 D gives one cusp
                                                                      		with the place of fillet and second order inside
                                                                      		complete.
A further  account of this 2nd window at p 105                        		Now, note in these windows, that when their cusps
                                                                      		are solid, the second order goes to their edge:  but
                                                                      		when they are cut open, by chiselling away through
                                                                      		the fillet, the second order is confined to the incision.
                                                                      		It is a curious system, and I do not in the least see
                                                                      		the use of this second order at all.
                                                                      (3) No 72 is 68 L. taken more accurately: to with exact
                                                                      		relations of the two orders and sections of cusps.)
                                                                      The Second Window:  That of the side next prisons:  but nearest
                                                                      		the sea:  On my drawings of this I must depend for
                                                                      		both, they being in everything alike but mere pattern of
                                                                      		tracery: and both different form facade windows.
                                                                      	2	This second window then is given in 68 G. as noted  above p 91
                                                                      		only Fig 1 is sadly rude and scrawled & blackened, at the
                                                                      		right, nor are its leaves of true contour, but merely placed.
                                                                      		Its shaded point is thejamb section:  the semicircular
                                                                      		shaft let in at the two joints.
                                                                      		The smallest Daguerreotype is the tracery of this window.

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