[21]. This is a word in use among the French artists, but is hardly legitimated in the language, and I know not whence it came, but it is a useful term. It is applied to the architectural ornaments of the 17th century, adopted, as they so often have been, without taste, and without meaning.
[22]. In 1827 I found the solids of this edifice completed. It is a large domical building with two wings, formed by two colonnades each of a quarter of a circle. I do not much like either the masses or the details. The situation is bad; it ought to have been on the hill, not under it; and by offering a second object in the Largo del Palazzo it destroys the unity of the scene.
[23]. It was removed to the museum in 1826.
[24]. The road up the Mergellina was formed under the government of Murat; the descent on the other side was not I believe completed till 1824, and ruined again by the fall of part of the hill in November, 1825.
[25]. The whole has since been removed to Naples.
[26]. My friend Mr. T. L. Donaldson informs me, that he remarked some remains of a blue colour, on the under side of the mutules; this had escaped my observation.
[27]. I feel confident that this is the case, but I only mention it from memory, as I have no note on the subject.
[28]. I had noted eighteen to the central, and fourteen to the secondary openings, but my accurate friend, Mr. T. L. Donaldson, assures me there are but fifteen and eleven, and this agrees with Revett’s drawings.
[29]. Wilkins calls it a thin slab, but it is ten inches and three quarters in thickness.
[30]. Wilkins indeed directs us to look from the south, but this must be from inattention. He cannot mean that by looking very obliquely through the arch you may avoid all view of the Acropolis; such a statement would not help his argument.