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97 column, and then the others are arranged at equal distances apart, and so that there shall be one at the middle of every roof­tiling. Those that are over the columns should have holes bored through them to the gutter which receives the rain-water from the tiles, but those between them should be solid. Thus the mass of water that falls by way of the tiles into the gutter will not be thrown down along the intercolumniations nor drench people who are passing through them, while the lion's heads that are over the columns will appear to be vomiting as they discharge streams of water from their mouths.

In this book I have written as clearly as I could on the arrange­ments of Ionic temples. In the next I shall explain the propor­tions of Doric and Corinthian temples.