inches high, and 3 feet 2inches diameter. The circumference is in 24divisions, whereof 4, which are at right angleswith each other, are flat faces, covered with hie-roglyphics, and the other intervening ones aresunk into flat eliptical flutes J- inch deep. Onthe top and bottom of the shaft is a… … 40 ON THE PROGRESS AND PERFECTION OF On the supposition of the type being the hut, and of thedetail of the order being derived from the componentparts of a hut, the Romans, and afterwards the restorers ofart in Italy, were justified in altering this defect, which wasthe father of many more, in the…
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