THE DECORATORS ASSISTANT. 95 ^rcfjitectiuT. (^Continued from page 86.) … AVING already given a description of the Tuscanorder, we now proceed to that of THE DORIC. The origin of this order has been thusdescribed by Vitruvius:—Dorus, son ofHellen and the nymph Orises, reigned overAchaia and Peloponnesus. He built a templeof this order, on a spot sacred to Juno, atArgos,…
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