Note 6 — COLUMNIATION.
Reading edition
Should the reader be quite fresh to the subject, he is recommended to draw out for himself,—merely roughly mark down,—the several dispositions of columns which have been spoken of; for by compelling him to consider them carefully, he will be better able to understand them, and have them distinctly impressed upon his memory. The annexed may serve as a specimen of such short-hand architectural notation, in asterisks.
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* Peripteral Hexastyle, *
* 12 intercolumns *
*on sides.*
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