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 <s>CHAP. IX.</s>

 <s><emph type="italics"/>Of the Entablature, the Architrave, Triglyphs, Dentils, Mutules, Cavetto, <lb/>
and Drip or Crona, as al&longs;o of Flutings and &longs;ome other Ornaments helong<lb/>
ing to Columns.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

 <s>Having fixed our Capitals, we upon <lb/>
them rai&longs;e our Architraves, upon the <lb/>
Architrave the Freze, Cornice and other Mem<lb/>
bers of the Covering. </s> <s>In mo&longs;t of the&longs;e Mem<lb/>
bers the <emph type="italics"/>Ionians<emph.end type="italics"/> and all others differ very much <lb/>
from the <emph type="italics"/>Dorians;<emph.end type="italics"/> though in &longs;ome Particulars <lb/>
they agree. </s> <s>For In&longs;tance, it is a general Rule, <lb/>
that the Thickne&longs;s of the Bottom of the Ar<lb/>
chitrave &longs;hould be never greater than the Solid <lb/>
of the Top of the Shaft of the Column, nor <lb/>
&longs;hould the Breadth of the Top of the &longs;ame <lb/>
Architrave be greater than the Diameter of the <lb/>
Bottom of the Shaft. </s> <s>The Cornice is that <lb/>
Member which lies upon the Freze, and pro<lb/>
jects over it. </s> <s>In this too they ob&longs;erved the <lb/>
Rule which we have already given, that the <lb/>
Projecture of all Members that &longs;tood out from <lb/>
the Naked of the Wall ought to be equal to <lb/>
their Height. </s> <s>It was al&longs;o u&longs;ual with them to <lb/>
make their Cornice lean forwards about a <lb/>
twelfth Part of its Width, knowing that this <lb/>
Member would &longs;eem to be falling backwards, <lb/>
if it were &longs;et up at right Angles. </s> <s>I here again <lb/>
entreat tho&longs;e who &longs;hall hereafter tran&longs;cribe this <lb/>
Book, and I do it in the mo&longs;t earne&longs;t Manner, <lb/>
that they would write the Numbers which I <lb/>
&longs;et down with Letters at Length, and not with <lb/>
numeral Characters, for the avoiding of more <lb/>
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numerous Errors. </s> <s>The <emph type="italics"/>Dorians<emph.end type="italics"/> then never <lb/>
made the Height of their Architrave le&longs;s than <lb/>
half the Diameter of the Bottom of their Co<lb/>
lumn, and this Architrave they divided into <lb/>
three Fa&longs;cias, under the uppermo&longs;t of which <lb/>
ran &longs;ome &longs;hort Mouldings, in each whereof <lb/>
&longs;tuck &longs;ix Nails, which were fixed in tho&longs;e <lb/>
Mouldings with their Heads downwards, and <lb/>
might at fir&longs;t be intended to keep the Freze <lb/>
from retiring backward. </s> <s>The whole Height <lb/>
of this Architrave they divided into twelve <lb/>
Parts or Minutes, by which we &longs;hall mea&longs;ure <lb/>
all the following Members. </s> <s>Four of the&longs;e <lb/>
Minutes they gave to the lower Fa&longs;cia, &longs;ix to <lb/>
the Middle one which is above it, and the other <lb/>
two they left for the upper Fa&longs;cia; and of the <lb/>
&longs;ix Minutes given to the middle Fa&longs;cia, one <lb/>
was allowed to the Reglet or Moulding under <lb/>
the Tænia, and another to the Nails which <lb/>
&longs;tuck in that Moulding. </s> <s>The Length of the&longs;e <lb/>
Reglets was twelves Minutes, and the Spaces <lb/>
from one Reglet to the other were eighteen. <lb/>
</s> <s>Over the Architrave for an Ornament they &longs;et <lb/>
the Triglyphs, the Front of which, being rai&longs;ed <lb/>
High and Perpendicular, projected over the <lb/>
Architrave half a Minute. </s> <s>The Breadth of <lb/>
the Triglyphs mu&longs;t be equal to the Thickne&longs;s <lb/>
of the Architrave, and their Height or Length <lb/>
half as much more, &longs;o that this will be eight<lb/>
teen Minutes. </s> <s>Lengthways in the Face of the&longs;e <lb/>
Triglyphs we cut three Furrows at equal Di&longs;<lb/>
tance from each other, and hollowed at right <lb/>
Angles, allowing the Breadth of the opening <lb/>
one Minute. </s> <s>The Corners of the&longs;e Furrows or <lb/>
Channels mu&longs;t be cut away to the Breadth of <lb/>
half a Minute. </s> <s>The Spaces or Metopes be<lb/>
tween the Triglyphs, where the Proportions are <lb/>
elegant, are flat Tables exactly &longs;quare, and the <lb/>
Triglyphs them&longs;elves mu&longs;t be &longs;et perpendicu<lb/>
larly over the Solid of their Columns. </s> <s>The <lb/>
Face of the Triglyphs project half a Minute out <lb/>
from the Metopes; but the Perpendicular of <lb/>
the Metopes mu&longs;t fall exactly upon the lower <lb/>
Fa&longs;cia of the Architrave. </s> <s>In the&longs;e Metopes it <lb/>
is u&longs;ual to carve the Skulls of Oxen, Pateras, <lb/>
Wheels, and the like. </s> <s>Over each of the&longs;e <lb/>
Triglyphs and Metopes, in&longs;tead of a Cymati<lb/>
um, mu&longs;t run a Fillet of the Breadth of two <lb/>
Minutes, over the&longs;e a Cima-inver&longs;a of the <lb/>
Breadth of two Minutes, and above that a Plat<lb/>
band of the Breadth of three Minutes, which is <lb/>
adorned with little Eggs, in Imitation, perhaps, <lb/>
of the &longs;mall Stones which &longs;ometimes bur&longs;t out <lb/>
between the Joints of a Pavement through the <lb/>
too great Abundance of Mortar. </s> <s>In the&longs;e we <lb/>
fix the Mutules of the &longs;ame Breadth as the <lb/>
Triglyphs, and of the &longs;ame Height as the Plat<lb/>
band, placed directly over the Heads of the <lb/>
Triglyphs and projecting twelve Minutes. </s> <s>The <lb/>
Heads of the Mutules are cut Perpendicular, <lb/>
with a Cymai&longs;e over them. </s> <s>Over the Mutules <lb/>
runs a &longs;mall Cima of three Quarters of a Mi<lb/>
nute. </s> <s>In the Plat-fond of the Entablature be<lb/>
tween the Mutules we carve a Ro&longs;e or a Flower <lb/>
</s>