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Updated: June 1, 2025
Though insufficient, perhaps, in itself, to create a reputation for an author, yet, as a "stella Coronae" one of the stars in that various crown, which marks the place of Sheridan in the firmament of Fame, it not only well sustains its own part in the lustre, but draws new light from the host of brilliancy around it.
All the members which are to be above the capitals of the columns, that is, architraves, friezes, coronae, tympana, gables, and acroteria, should be inclined to the front a twelfth part of their own height, for the reason that when we stand in front of them, if two lines are drawn from the eye, one reaching to the bottom of the building and the other to the top, that which reaches to the top will be the longer.
The field we found to be a sheet of ice 150 miles in circumference!" Another very singular appearance observed occasionally in foggy weather is a series of bright circles, or coronae, surrounding the heads or persons of individuals in certain positions. We have, while standing at the mast-head of a vessel in Hudson's Straits, observed our own shadow thrown on the sea with a bright halo round it.
In the simae which are over the coronae on the sides of the temple, lion's heads are to be carved and arranged at intervals thus: First one head is marked out directly over the axis of each column, and then the others are arranged at equal distances apart, and so that there shall be one at the middle of every roof-tiling.
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