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Too narrow to permit those Counter-Walls to be made within, they put hollow


go over the _Cornices_ which are sloping upon the _Piedement_ or
_Fronton_. This great _Cymatium_ ought to have of height an 8th part
more than the _Crown_, or _Drip_, or _Larmier_. In places where there
are no _Piedements_, in the great _Cymatiums_ of the _Cornices_, must be
cut the Heads of Lions, at such a distance, that there must be one
directly upon every Pillar, and that the other answer directly upon the
great _Dalles_, that cover the House. These Heads of Lions are pierced
through to convey the Water which falls from the Roof upon the
_Cornice_: The Heads of the Lions which are not directly upon the
Pillars, ought not to be pierced, to the end the Water may flow with the
greater impetuosity through those which are directly upon the Pillars,
and that it may not fall between the Pillars upon those who are to go
into the _Portico's_. The _Greeks_ in their great Buildings never put
any _Dentels_ under the _Modillons_, because the _Rafters_ could not be
under the _Forces_, or _Sheers_, and it is a great fault that That,
which according to the true Rules of Building ought to be placed above,
should be placed under in the Representation. For this Reason, the
Ancients never approved of _Modillons_ in the _Piedements_, nor of
_Dentels_, but only simple _Cornices_; for neither the _Forces_,
_Sheers_, nor the _Rafters_ can be represented in th

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