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The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)

London : [William Laxton] · leaf 366

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Capitals at the Church St. Germain des Pres. ornament. This second system, like the first, owes its origin toantiquity. The Etruscans often mixed up the heads of men withfoliage in their capitals;* the Romans introduced persons on foot, ofwhicn a fine example is to be found in St. Lawrence without…

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