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172					back of 139                                                   173			140
                                                                      
				Pal. Lordeon                                                      
					ft	  in                                                          		MURANO  HOUSE AT     CA LAREDAN
		b C (under soffit	2   " 8                                           
		a c		3   " 3                                                        house :  I never sao so sweeping a fifth as the central
		Pure vertical stilt under                                           of the three ab in centre: now plastered up carefully
			soffit)	1   " 2                                                    drawn with one of its flanking windows on No 114, quite as
		c d		1   "	6½                                                       large in proportion to the other:  These windows are
		Length of two dentils and                                           on the first story, and have two det beside them for
			one interval	0   "	4¼                                              which vide Gothic book p 48, and notes there.  Then on
		Breadth of dentil band	0   "	1½                                     the ground floor, still at the back are two 4th orders:
		Width of inland marble (e)	0   "	4½                                 with the most rare section fig 3  No 114 their pils being
		Depth of arch (b x)	1   " 5                                          restored, finally at the side of the house, in walk
		Interval on abacus (f)	0   "	2½                                     past garden gate on ground floor is the most interesting
		One side of abacus (Generally)	2   "	0½                             window on the back of No 114, and with its cusp and
		Vertical height of capital,                                         section of cusp, fig 4 p 114.
			or (c k) to joint about	1   " 6                                    Pala zo Loredan.  Its measures opposite:  Its capitals are very
		Circumf. Of shaft at m                                              coarse in workmanship:  the basket and lily ones, like St
			under fillet	3   " 4                                               Marks, are not undercut, but mere surface work:  all are
		Height from k to base of                                            rude and hard:  either much earlier than Fondaco and
			pure shaft	9 "[/]4	                                                Turchi, or very bad work  No precision in any of their
		Circumf. of shaft at said                                           lines:  They have a good deal the look of an imitation
			base	3   "	8½	                                                     of St mark’s, but the wreaths of leaves on the round of the
		Interval between shaft at                                           abacus on four of them are remarkable:  their designs
			their tops	3   " 9                                                 seeming far ahead of their workmanship;  one is sketched
     a  c:   Then  b c - a cwould - probable height of stilt -	1   "	0½at p 50  House book 2 fig 1 note the short shafted leaf
                          2                                           held by its stem but not ribbed.  The section of the
	             There are about 60 dentils round the inner band of arch.bell and shaft is given:  the bases of the shafts are com-
                                                                      mon modern restrictions at the time of the balcony
                                                                      All I wonder at is, in the restorations this palace has
                                                                      undergone that so much is left.  I do not know anything
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