ARCHITECTURE. 
fterside of the baml of the triglyphs, were 
cut into thin cylinders, or conic trustrums, 
representing the drops of rain falling ftom 
the edges. These parts which at fiist re- 
sulted from the primitive habitation, were 
afterwards converted into more elegant de- 
corations of simple and natural forms. The 
general figure of the Attic Doric consists of 
but few parts, even as practised in the most 
refined ages of Greece : the fluted shaft, 
terminating with one, two, or three anxralai 
channels : the capital, consisting of the fillets 
and a bold echinus, having the same com- 
mon axis with the shaft; arid the crowning 
abacus form the entire column, winch there- 
fore consists of a base and shaft. The spa- 
cious architrave, resting on the columns, con- 
sisting of a crowning band with the gutter e 
and tenia pending therefrom, under the 
tririyphs ; the frize, consisting of a capital, 
or cymatium, and equidistant triglypli, 
leaving square recesses 'between them 
called metopes ; and the cornice, consisting 
of mutules over the triglyphs and over the 
metopes ; the corona formed of a hand 
and eymaiium above; and the sirna, or 
crowning moulding, formed of a large ovolo 
and fillet, compose the whole entablature ; 
which therefore consists of a cornice, fuze, 
and architrave. This is the general charac- 
ter of the Grecian Doric. It is almost con- 
stantly placed upon three steps, proporti- 
oned to the height of the order, and not to 
the human step ; the shafts of the columns 
diminish with a beautiful curve line from the 
bottom to the cincture below the annulets : 
the flutes-are without fillets, ot a circular 01 
eliptic section, and terminate immediately 
below the annulets : the annulets ot the ca- 
pita! most commonly follow the contour of 
the ovolo ; above them, the band, crowning 
the top of the architrave, is one continued 
string without breaks ; the guttra under 
the reguia, and under the mutules, are gene- 
rally of a cylindrical form, at least tapering 
upwards in a very small degree. 
The triglyphs are placed upon the extre- 
mities of the frize, and not over the axis of 
the extreme columns ; and consist of two 
whole channels, and two half ones upon the 
edges ; the sides of each glyph, or channel, 
are two vertical planes, meeting each other 
in a right angle at the back, aud consequent- 
ly the face of the triglyph at 13.3 degrees on 
each side of the glyph ; the tops of the 
channels are sometimes curved in the front, 
like a very eccentric semi-ellipsis, placed 
with its greater axis horizontal ; as in the 
temple of Theseus, and very frequently 
with a horizontal line, joined to each verti 
cal line at the side, with a quadrant of a 
circle, and the tops of the two half channels 
on each edge of the triglyph, are semicircu- 
lar, not only in front, but in the profiles 
also, leaving the angle pendant at the top ; 
as in the temples of Minerva at Athens, 
and at Sanium, and the temple of Jupiter 
Panellenius ; and sometimes the head ot 
the glyph is horizontal, as in the Doric poi- 
tico at Athens, and in the temple of Jupiter 
Nemaeus, between Argos and Cofitoth. 
In all these examples, the surface forming 
the head of a glyph is perpendicular to the 
front, or such, that a right line, perpendicu- 
lar to the face, and touching the top line ot 
the head in any point, will coincide with t e 
surface of the interior of the glyph, the 
capital of the triglyphs has a small pro- 
jection on the face, which is not returned on 
the edges, and descends lower than that over 
the metopes ; though both are on the same 
level at the top. 
The mutules are thin paralielopipeds : 
their lower surface making an acute angle 
with the upright of the frize, in the same 
manner as the under ends ot the rafters ot 
the primitive hut would ; the pendant guttm 
hung to them, are in three rows, from front 
to rear, having six on the front, and also in 
each of the two back rows. The soffit of 
the corona is paraliel to that of the mu- 
tules, and consequently makes an acute 
angle with the upright of the frize also. The 
lower part of the corona is most frequently 
wrought into a fillet, its cymatium is dif- 
ferently formed in different examples ; but 
most frequently with a small ovolo and fillet, 
both of which are channelled upwards, m 
order to produce a greater variety of light 
and shade. The sima, or crowning mould- 
ing, most frequently consists of a large ovolo, 
and a fillet over if, . 
The genera! propositions of the Doric or- 
der are the following. The columns are 
six diameters in height : the superior diame- 
ter is four-fifths, and the altitudinal dimen- 
sion of the capital two-fifths of the inferior 
diameter, including the annulets, echinus, 
and abacus. The height of the capital is 
divided into two equal parts, giving the 
upper one to the abacus, and the lower one 
to the echinus and annulets : divide tne 
lower one into five parts, giving one to the 
annulets, and four to the ovolo : divine the 
height of the entablature into four parts, 
.living one to the cornice, which .compre- 
hends the distance between the fillet or the 
echinus or crowning moulding and the un- 
