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circular arches resting on moulded brackets, and projecting 10 to 12 inches 

 from the face of the wall. The coping will be 12 by 24 mches; cut to the 

 form of five sides of an octagon. 



A handsome finial will be well cut for the apex of the gable. 



The buttresses will have the corners well and truly cut, with moulded 

 caps, finisiied in the best manner. 



Sides of uwst ivittg. — The east side of the west wing will be finished in 

 precisely the same manner as the west side, except so far as it is covered 

 by the connecting range. 



The base courses will be carried all around. 



There will be six small windows in the basement; with splayed jambs, 

 arches, and sills. 



The water talkie will be carried all around over the basement, per direc- 

 tions of arcliitect. 



The buttresses projecting eight inches from the face of the walls, and 

 connected with arched heads, will be carried up perfectly plumb, true, and 

 even, and all the arres of the buttresses and arches will be well and truly 

 cut. 



Sill course under the windows will be cut to the form of five sides of an 

 octagon. 



The sills will be eight inches in thickness. 



The jambs and arches of the windows will be splayed or rebated. 



A corbel course will be carried all around both sides of the building, of 

 large semicircular arches, supported on foliage brackets. The corbelling 

 will project from 10 to 12 inches from the face of the wall. 



The coping will be 12 by 24 inches, cut to an octagonal form, with a 

 groove to receive roofing material. 



The walls connecting the central rear tower and the main central build- 

 ings will be cut with doors, windows, arches, corbel courses, mouldings, 

 and battlements, precisely similar to those hereinbefore described j connect- 

 ing the central front towers with main central building. 



GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS. 



All the window sills will be splayed. 



All the doors will have sills and steps of the size, rise, and tread, di- 

 rected by architect. 



All the door and window sills will be well patent-hammered, and brought 

 to a joint not exceeding 3-16 of an inch. All the jambs and arches, with 

 the labels over them, will be fine cut and patent-hammered, and no 

 spauls will be allovv^ed on their faces. In the jambs and arches of the 

 principal doors, the joints shall not exceed 3-16 of an inch. In the 

 jambs, arches, <Lc., of the remaining doors, and of all the windows, the 

 joints shall not exceed 3-S of an inch. In all the capitals of all the columns 

 the foliage will be well relieved and truly cut, and the plinths of the 

 columns will be in some cases octagonal, and in others circular and 

 square, and well cut. 



All the bands and mouldings will be well and truly cut, or rubbed. 



All the ornamented bands and mouldings will be well relieved, and truly 

 cut, or rubbed. 



All the moulded and ornamented corbels will be cut in the best manner. 

 The foliage will be well relieved. 



