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ballum is said to have furnished a design for the shafts of 

 Doric columns ; a small basket of wicker-work, also, that 

 was left on the tomb of a young Grecian lady, and be- 

 came entwined with acanthus-leaves, suggested an appro- 

 priate ornament for the volute, or scroll, of the Corinthian 

 order. 



