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(see plan A, No. S.) A label resting on corbels will be carried around the 

 heads of the windows and niches. The mullions will be cut to the form, 

 of a double jamb, with a fillet between them, (as shown in Nos. 8 and 9.) 



The bases, plintlis, and capitals, will be furnished for all the columns 

 of such design as architect shall direct, and they shall have foliage caps 

 well undercut. 



In the arches the column will be replaced by a square w-ith a heed on 

 the angle, or by an octagonal mould, (see plan No. 9,) and the remainder 

 of the arch shall be the same as the section of the jamb. 



Corbel courses over the 1st tier of loindows. — A handsome corbel course, 

 with moulded corbels under the arches, shall run all around both towers, 

 (see Nos. 10 and 11,) and project from six to eiglit inches; a moulding 

 shall run over the head of the corbel course, with a batter on top to shed 

 the rain. 



Between the corbel course and the band under the 2d windows a 

 panel course, well sunk, (see plan A, No. 12,) will be carried around bot,li 

 towers, of such design as architect shall direct. 



The sill course under the second windows will be a semicircle and fillet, 

 and five sides of an octagon, of the height shown on plan, and finley cut. 



The sills of the 2d tier of windows will be 15 inches in thickness. 



The jambs, arches, labels, plinths, bases and caps, will be of tlie same 

 section as those of the 1st tier; they will be finely patent-hammered or well 

 cut, and of such dimensions as to section as the architect shall direct. 



Corbels over '2d tier of windoics. — On each side of each tower, nine or 

 ten corbels or modellions of good dnsign, handsomely moulded, will be 

 placed, and of such size as architect shall direct. These corbels will sup- 

 port an octagonal moulding, well cut, and of such dimensions as architect 

 shall direct. 



The sill course of panelled arcade over this octagonal moulding, will 

 be of such dimensions and section as architect shall direct. 



A panelled arcade of seven to eight arches, supported by pillars, with 

 plain caps and bases, will be carried along two sides of each tower — 32 pan- 

 els in all; they will be sunk of such depths as the architect shall direct: 



Moulding over arcade and sjdayed sill cowsc. — Over this arcade a label 

 mould with a splayed sill course, having in it one break and being a con- 

 tinuation of the buttress caps, will be carried around three sides of each 

 tower, of such dimensions and section as architect shall direct. 



Above the sill course, the sills of the upper windows, which will be 1.5 

 inches high and of such section as architect shall direct, will be carried. 

 They will be well cut. 



Windoics, 3d tier. — The third tier of windows will vary in the two 

 towers per plans; there being a double window on each of the four sides of 

 the larger tower, and a triple one on each of the four sides of the lower 

 tower. The section of all the jambs will he as shown on plan A, Nos. 7 

 and S, and they will be of such dimensions as the architect shall direct. 

 All the columns of all the above jambs will havephnths and bases of good 

 designs and foliage Norman caps, approved by architect. The arches will 

 have the same section as the jambs, except over the pillar caps, where the 

 circular shaft will be replaced by an octagonal moulding. 



FinisJi of lower central front tower, above Zd tier of windows. — 1st. A 

 corbel course projecting lU inches from the face of the wall, of semicircular 

 corbels, supported on brackets, will be carried all around the four sides of 



