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CHAP. X.

Of the TrojeQure of the Dt-/e, and of the Cornice of

, ‘Pedestals .

S Pedestals were not so much in useamong the Ancients , as they have beensince, the Moderns have not tied them-selves up to follow the Proportions ofthose which remain of the Antique : butabove all, they have thrown aside thegreat Projectures the Antique gave theirBases, which are commonly larger by aThird or more, than they are in the jkso-dern Authors. What can be gather’d from the general Rules, practic’dby the Ancients , is, that they proportion d this Projecture to theHeight of the Pedestals, which the Moderns have not observ’d,making it always near the fame in all the Orders, where theHeight of the Pedestals is very different: and I can’t think theyacted reasonably herein 3 for if in Columns, the Projecture of theBases be equal in all the Orders, though the Heights of the Co-lumns are different, stis because the Bases themselves have always anequal Height in all the Orders, except only the Tuscan , where it issomewhat lower than in the others, by reason it comprehends theCincture at the Bottom of the Column: Now, by the fame Rulethe Projectures of the Bases of Pedestals ought to be different, beingproportional to the Height of the whole Pedestal, which is differentin the different Orders.

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