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OF THE TEMPLE OF CONCORD AT ROME. 
muft therefore fuppofe the columns thofe of a porch: their fize is not equal
any more than the 
width of the intercolumnations. The column on the right angle is 'fmaller
than the reft, and that 
which is behind is bigger.  The middle intercolumnation is wider than the
others about one third 
of a module. 
In the elevation it muft be obferved, that the bafes of the columns, except
the angular, have no 
plinth.  The capitals are compofed of the doric and ionic.  The columns are
four feet two inches 
one fourth in diameter at the bottom, and thirty-nine feet eleven inches
feven eighths high with 
the bafe and capital : their diminution commences from the bottom; they are
of granite each of 
one piece. The bafes, capitals and entablature are of white marble.  Between
the joinings of the 
bafes and capitals with the columns, are tablets of lead.  The architrave
and frieze are of a fingle 
courfe and make but one fmooth table in front, on which is the infcription:
the face of the left fide is 
alfo quite fmooth, the architrave being profiled only on the right fide.
 The cornice is of another 
courfe laid dry and without mortar upon the architrave ; and it is obfervable
that the beds are not 
polifhed nor even traced, but pricked very thick and deep. Over the cornice
are arches in difcharge, 
dire& to the intercolumns, to eafe the weight of the tympan, which is
of brick. There remain only 
the returns of the cornice of the pediment, as I have drawn it. There are
twenty-two modilions 
on the cornice in the whole breadth of the front of the porch ; and there
is a void or intermodilion 
diredly over each column.  The line which croffes three of the columns, and
runs lower on the 
other fide, reprefents the ground. 
Palladio has put no plinth to the bafes of the angular columns; he profiles
the architrave on both 
fides; he makes the diameter of the columns too fmall by an inch and half;
the middle inter- 
columnation by two inches one fourth; the other intercolumns by an inch;
the column with the 
bafe and capital too low by three feet eleven-inches five eighths: he puts
but four letters in the firft 
line of the infcription, and the words are at full length ; he puts in the
breadth of the front 
of 'the porch eleven modilions more than there are, and places a. modilion.
diredly over each 
column. 
H E fecond plate contains feveral parts at large: the bafe of the angular
columns, and that 
1 of the other columns, the face of the capital, the entablature and the
foflit of the cornice. 
On the bafes of the columns the contour of the fcotia's defcends no farther
than the top of the orls 
'under them, and there are no aftragals between the fcotia's. In the entablature
the frieze remains 
ruffic on the right fide of the porch, and this ruftic comprehends the fillet
or lift of the cymatium 
at the top of the architrave: on the foffit of the cornice in the under-fide
of the modilions is an 
aftragal between two funk-fillets, as is profiled on the face of a modilion
by dots. 
Palladio in the bafe of the columns omits a little funk-fillet between the
orl and the upper torus; 
he makes the contour of the fcotia's defcend farther than the top of the
orls under them: on 
the face of the capital he makes the volutes reenter the vafe ; he puts a
quarter-round on the top 
of the abacus, where is only a fquare lifti; he fets a flower in the middle
of the abacus inftead of a 
very peculiar ornament reprefenting a chafed cup: he makes the volutes defcend
to the aftragal of 
the top of the column, whereas they defcend not fo much as to the bottom
of the aftragal of the 
capital; he puts over each volute a leaf turned up, inflead of a little fcroll
turned down: he lays 
on the thicknefs of the volutes a divided leaf which covers them, inflead
of the little round and oval 
deepenings which enlarge as the volute.  He puts imperfe& darts between
the eggs, inflead of the 
double flowers that are there: he forms the frieze, and parts it from the
architrave with which it is, 
blended by a ruftic.  He omits the little ogee at the bottom of the cornice;
he puts a pine-apple 
on the returning angle of the dentils, where is a dentil: he draws a little
fillet about the receffes 
of the rofes in the foflit of the corona; he makes thofe receffes too deep,
and gives the rofes too 
little proje&ion.  The front of the modilions is too fmall; he makes
them anfwer diredly'to the 
mniddle of the columns, whereas a rofe anfwers to it. He makes the bafe of
the columns too high 
by one part three ninths ; the lower torus too high by a part, and the upper
torus too low by two 
~thirds.