APPENDI 
There ue sererd paligsin ths and che chanpers which indete that he breks fpoken of vere nos 
huent bu diedenihe. Virerins nenions the sirur ded i themn not acheing in somne lids ofeath, 
ethei hrntingete cheg ae hid in he beilhng i he insdebe ne oetenih diech and eher e. 
oine kat wo enstody nd Chapte Vl he hyes he o o hevals honld beoered in 
tedeons sostanes opeventhe rain ifit hould genetratethrongh therok, kom injuring the bick in 
thevell. The tedecos obhtance ment vas pohably omne kind of burnt enth, s obered atndt g jot 
ihat chapter: and, ithebickswvere lo burnt there could be no reason forthe caution, funcethe ran could 
no more injure ome than the other. The non-adhefion of the frauv could not be mentoned in bunt 
brickes; nor the being dey wichout de and not vichin; and hrinking from that cause, after they were lad 
in che vall. It semns probabletherefore that he antient, sometimes at lend, led unburnt bicks, perhapsin 
the fmaller oufes of private cigens; andthele are what V'iruvius means bythe vord laer, difinguisting the 
burnt sort by the term testa, or later coctus. 
BOOK I. Ch. HI. Note (15). It is in this note observed, that fome commentators have judged that 
Vitrwvius prescrbes too largea proportion for the recels of the cathetal ine from the extremity of the abacus 
of the lonic capital, and have therefore thought his text was corupted; but, in prof of its purity, there are 
remains of ancient Greck buildings sil libsting, wherein this ruleof Vitruvius is exemplisied, vis. thetemple 
of Apollo near Miletus, and the lonic temple on the Ilisus at Athens; in both of which examples the cathetal 
line of the capital recedes from the abacus as much as Vitruvius prescribes. 
It may be worth observation, that the bases as well as capitals of the columns of the said temple at Miletus 
are very nearly, in form and proportion, ith the description that Vitruvius gives of the lonic base and capital, 
from whence it may be infered, with some probability, that they were wholly formed on the rules he has 
transmitted to us; and that the volute may be considered as the true Vitruvian volute, the construction of which 
so many ingenious persons have employed themselves to discover.— A representation of it may be seen in the 
Ionian Antiquities. 
BOOK III. Ch. III. Note (16). In confirmation of the reasoning of this note, as well as to shew that the 
text is in this place probably authentic, the antient Greek temple on the llissus at Athens may be produced as 
an example; for, in this building, the abacus of the capital is in length and breadth equal to a diameter, and about 
one ninth, of the bottom of the column; and the height of the said column is fourteen feet eight inches, Englin 
measure. So that it becomes highly probable that Vitruvius intended the abacus to be of this proportion, in 
columns of the height of fifteen feet and under, as argued in the note; and the former measure mentioned by 
him, viz. one diameter and rp, to relate to all columns above that height. As it appears from several circum¬ 
stances that Vitruvius had studied and drawn many of his rules from ancient Greek buildings remaining in 
his time; so in this instance it is not improbable that he may have had in remembrance the aforesaid temple, 
the delineation of which may be seen in the first volume of Mr. Stuart's Athenian Antiquities. 
BOOK III. Ch. III. Note (17). To the arguments on the scamilli impares I can now add the support or 
several antient examples. When I wrote that note, I had not met with any instance in which the imall fillets 
that I supposed to be the scamilli were used in the bases of columns, except in the Sybil's Temple at l'ivoli. 
Since then, I have seen several representations of antient buildings in which they were applied as in the 
Temple of Baechus at Teos, and Temple of Minerva at Priene, represented in the lonian Antiquities, both of