Part II. five Kinds of Columns.

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CHAP. II!.the IONIC Order.

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HE Proportions of the ionic Order, bearthe fame Relation to them of the Doric,and the other more delicate Orders, asthose of the Tuscan do to the Doric , ex-cept as to the Diminution of the Co-lumn, which is much greater in the Tuf-can, than in the others, where it is al-ways alike. The Character of the IonicOrder, is much more particular, theBase of the Column, the Capital, and the Cornice of the Enta-blature, being such, as render it more different from the other Or-ders, than the Doric is from the Tuscan.

The whole Order, as was said before, consists of forty littleModules, of which, the Pedestal has eight, the Column twenty-six, and the Entablature six. These Parts of the Pedestal are de-termin’d as usual, as may be seen in Plate I. the Base having aFourth of the whole Height of the Pedestal, the Cornice one Eighth*and the Mouldings of the Base one Third of the whole Base.

Th e Mouldings of the Base of the Pedestal, which are two in B A S Ethe Tuscan Order, and three in the Doric, are four here : namely, of thean inverted Cymaife with its Fillet, and a Hollow, with its Fillet Pedestalunder it. To find the Heights of these Mouldings, the Third ofthe Base, which, in the Tuscan , is divided into six, and, in the Do-ric, into seven, is here divided into eight: four of these Parts aregiven to the Cymaife, and one to its Fillet $ two to the Hollow,

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