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A treatise of the 5 orders of columns in architecture, viz. toscan... wherein the proportions and characters of the members of their several pedestals,... are distinctly consider'd,... engraven on 6 folio pl. ... adorn'd with 24 borders,... and a like number of tail-pieces by John Sturt / written in French by Claude Perrault... ; made English by John James of Greenwich
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104 The Ovdonanee of the Part II.

C h. VI. are, there are two on each Face, /and, in the upper Row, one inthe middle, and two Half-leaves on the Sides, which are half thegreat Leaves folded back upon the Angle. What is farther remark-able is, that commonly the Rim of the Vase, or Tambour, is notstrait, as the lower part is, but a little circular and prominent inthe middle : that of the Basilic of Antoninus advances the eighth Partof the Diameter of the Column below, but in the Porch of Septi-mius it is but a tenth, and no more than a twelfth in the Porticoof the Pantheon.

There are also many other Things, relating to Pilasters, dif-cours’d of in the two following Chapters.

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