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content meekly to accept the proportions in vogue among its associates. 

 It will therefore be unnecessary to enter into any description of the 

 lower parts of the column, except to say that they are like homologous 

 parts in the later forms of Order II. Hence, since the upper and 

 lower parts of the column cannot be regarded as wholly consistent, it 

 must be confessed that this order is not altogether well distinguished, 

 and, were it not for the utter difference in capitals, one would be 

 tempted to combine it with the preceding. 



Fig. 13. 



Capital. — If we set aside the minor irregularities of its ornaments, 

 which in truth only repeat the figure of the whole, the outline of 

 the capital expands with considerable regularity and in one convex 

 sweep from the shaft to a perfectly fiat top. In the amount of con- 

 vexity there appears to be a slight difference in the examples, most of 

 them having the strong protuberance shown in the accompanying cut, 



Fig. 13. Lotus Column, from Philoe. The abacus, bearing the head of Athor, 

 with pylon above, is omitted. (After the " Description.") 



