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Chap. I. The Tuscan is in effect: no other than the Doric made strongerby the Shortning of the Shaft or Body of the Column, and plain-er by the small Number and Largeness of the Mouldings, withwhich the Orders are commonly adorn d ; for the Base and Cor-nice of it's Pedestal have few Mouldings, and for the most partvery large. The Height of this Base, and this Cornice, which isas much in Proportion, as is in the other Orders, has fewer Mould-ings ; the Base of the Column has also but one Torus, and noScotia; the Abacus of the Capital has no Ogee above ; the Enta-blature is without Triglyphs or Mutules, ana the Cornice has butfew Mouldings.

The general Proportions of the principal Parts of this Order,have been given and explain'd in the first Part of this WORK;where it was said that the whole Order, that is to fay; the Pede-stal, Column, and Entablature, have thirty-four little Modules,of which the Pedestal has six, the Column twenty-two, and theEntablature six. It was also said, that the Proportions of thethree Parts of the Pedestal are alike in all the Orders, where theBase has always the fourth Part of the whole Pedestal, the Cornicethe eighth Part, and the Socle or Plinth of the Bale two Thirds ofthe Base it self. It now remains that I give the Particulars of theProportions of each Part, with what belongs to their peculiarCharacter.

A of The Pedestal is divided in the Tuscan Order, as in all the others^t j, g J into three Parts, the Base, the Die, and the Cornice. The Base

Pedestal, consists of two Parts, which are the Plinth and the Mouldings ofthe Base. Now a? the Proportions of the principal Parts of intireColumns wer^ before establifh’d in all the Orders, having such Re-lation each t6 other, that the Heights go increasing as the Ordersare more-delicate ; the Heights of the Mouldings of the Base andCornice of the Pedestals do the fame : for as the Orders are moredelicate, the Mouldings become smaller by the Augmentation oftheir Number which goes always increasing, the Tuscan Base ha-ving two, the Doric three, the Ionic four, the Corinthian five, andthe Composite six. In like manner, the Cornice of the Tuscan Pede-stal has three Mouldings, that of the Doric four, the Ionic five, theCorinthian six, and the Composte seven.

To determine the Heights and Projectures of these Mouldings,I divide the Height of the Cornice, and that of the Base into a cer-tain number of little Parts, which also go increasing according tothe Delicacy os the Orders. For that Part allotted to the Mould-ings of the Tuscan Base, is divided into six Particles, the Doric intoseven, the Ionic into eight, the Corinthian into nine, and the Composste into ten. The Height of the Cornice of the Tuscan Pedestal is

divided