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Of the Height of Entablatures.

HERE is nothing in which Architects, are less agreed, than in the Proportion' of the Heights of Entablatures, with re-spect to the Thickness of the Columns :for there is scarce any Work, either ofthe Ancients or Moderns, where this Pro-portion is not different 5 there being someEntablements near twice as high as o-thers, as is manifest by the Entabla-ture of ISleros Frontispiece, compared with that of the Temple of¥efla. near TtVoli.

This Proportion, however, ought, of all others, to behest re-gulated, none being of greater Importance, nor more shocking whenit is unreasonable ; because its Defect is more easie to be perceiv’dthan any other. ’Tis certain, that among the Rules of Archite-cture, the principal are those that appertain to Solidity or Strength;and that there is nothing, which more destroys the Beauty of aBuilding, than, when, in the Parts which compose it, we find Pro-portions contrary to what ought to establish this Solidity, as whenthe Parts appear not capable to sustain what they bear, nor to be bornby that which sustains them. Now this is principally remarkable inEntablatures and Columns, the Thickness of Columns, being thatwhich renders them capable of bearing, as the Height of Entabla-tures, proportion’d to this Thickness, is what renders, and makesthem appear capable of being sustain d. Whence it follows that

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