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Chap. I. one to the Fillet under it, the Remainder being for the Neck. TheProjecture of the whole Capital is equal to that of the Cincture atthe Bottom of the Column, which is eight Fifths and a half, takenfrom the Middle of the Column. The Projectures of the AstragaLunder the Quarter round, as also that of the Astragal at the Topof the Column, is seven Fifths, reckoning also from the Middle.

Vitbjvvivs , and most of the Moderns , who make the Diminu-tion of the Tuscan Column very great, give very little Breadth toits Capital, making it not to exceed that of the Diameter of theColumn at Bottom.

Authors neither agree among themselves, nor with the An-tique about the Character of this Capital. We find in Palladio andSerlio, as well as in VitruVius , and in the Trajan Column, the A-bacus quite plain, and without an Ogee: Vignola and Scamo^i,instead of an Ogee, put a Fillet: Philander takes away its Cornersand makes it round, possibly to make it like the Base, whose Plinth,VitruVius would have to be round. The Trajan Column has noNeck the Astragal of the Shaft of the Column being confoundedwith that of the Capital; and there are only VitruVius and Scamo^-who put an Astragal, with its Fillet, under the Ovolo ; others,as’ Philander, Palladio, Serlio, and Vignola, put only a Fillet there.

. As to the Proportions also, they are no better agreed; for some,as Philander , take the Astragal and Fillet of the Top of the Co-lumn from the third Part of the Capital, which VitruVius gives tothe Neck and Astragal under the Ovolo: others, as Serlio and Vt-gnola , give all the third Part to the Neck, and take the Fillet underthe Ovolo, from the second Part, which VitruVius gives entirely tothe Ovolo it self. Others, as Palladio , leave this whole Third tothe Ovolo, and put only a Fillet instead of the Astragal and Fillet,which VitruVius assigns there. In all this Diversity, I have chosento follow VitruVius, whose Manner seems to me more agreeable andconsonant to the Analogy and common Rule of all Capitals, whichis to be a little more adorn d, and not so plain as the Bases; forwithout this Astragal, which VitruVius puts under the Ovolo, theTuscan Capital would be nothing different from the Base.

Entabla- The Entablature having six Modules, as has beed said, the" £ " whole is divided into twenty Parts, which is likewise done in all

the other Orders, except the Doric, as has been already noted. Sixof these Parts are given to the Architectrave, the Fillet whereof hasone. The Freeze has also six Parts. Of the eight which remainfor the Cornice, two are given to the large Ogee which makes thefirst Member, and half a Part to the Fillet of the fame; two anda half to the Corona or Drip, one to an Astragal with its Fillet,which is half as much as the Astragal, and twq Parts to the Quar-

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