_First side_. A woman with a distaff; her girdle richly decorated, and fastened by a buckle. _Second side_. A youth in a long mantle, with a rose in his hand. _Third side_. A woman in a turban stroking a puppy, which she holds by the haunches. _Fourth side_. A man with a parrot. _Fifth side_. A woman in very rich costume, with braided hair, and dress thrown into minute folds, holding a rosary (?) in her left hand, her right on her breast. _Sixth side_. A man with a very thoughtful face, laying his hand upon the leaves of the capital. _Seventh side_. A crowned lady, with a rose in her hand. _Eighth side_. A boy with a ball in his left hand, and his right laid on his breast. SECTION LXXXIII. SIXTEENTH CAPITAL. It is decorated with eight large heads, partly intended to be grotesque, [Footnote: Selvatico states that these are intended to be representative of eight nations, Latins, Tartars, Turks, Hungarians, Greeks, Goths, Egyptians, and Persians. Either the inscriptions are now defaced or I have carelessly omitted to note them.] and very coarse and bad, except only that in the sixth side, which is totally different from all the rest, and looks like a portrait. It is thin, thoughtful, and dignified; thoroughly fine in every way. It wears a cap surmounted by two winged lions; and, therefore, I think Selvatico must have inaccurately written the list given in the note, for this head is certainly meant to express the superiority of the Venetian character over that of other nations. Nothing is more remarkable in all early sculpture, than its appreciation of the signs of dignity of character in the features, and the way in which it can exalt the principal figure in any subject by a few touches. SECTION LXXXIV. SEVENTEENTH CAPITAL. This has been so destroyed by the sea wind, which sweeps at this point of the arcade round the angle of the palace, that its inscriptions are no longer legible, and great part of its figures are gone. Selvatico states them as follows: Solomon, the wise; Priscian, the grammarian; Aristotle, the logician; Tully, the orator; Pythagoras, the philosopher; Archimedes, the mechanic; Orpheus, the musician; Ptolemy, the astronomer. The fragments actually remaining are the following: _First side_. A figure with two books, in a robe richly decorated with circles of roses. Inscribed "SALOMON (SAP) IENS." _Second side_. A man with one book, poring over it: he has had a long stick or reed in his hand. Of inscription only the letters "GRAMMATIC" remain. _Third side_. "ARISTOTLE:" so inscribed. He has a peaked double beard and a flat cap, from under which his long hair falls down his back. _Fourth side_. Destroyed. _Fifth side_. Destroyed, all but a board with, three (counters?) on it. _Sixth side_. A figure with compasses. Inscribed "GEOMET * *" _Seventh side_. Nothing is left but a guitar with its handle wrought into a lion's head. _Eighth side_. Destroyed.