London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 275
The Tuscan order ismost fitly employed in any edifice expressive of strength; suchas prisons, markets, barracks, &c. The column, including thebase and capital, is seven diameters in height; and indeed, noorder of more massive dimensions can be employed with advan-tage in any elegant edifice,… … channeled projecting intervals in the frieze, called triglyphs.These are placed over the centre of the columns : they serve toregulate the intercolumniations, and are at such distances thatthe metopes, which are the spaces between the triglyphs, are leftexactly square. This order is next in…
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