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“There are no fixed, as we saw before, intercolumnations in the Hindu architecture, as are found in the Grecian, but the spaces allowed between pillar and pillar in different Hindu buildings, are found nearly to coincide with the Grecian mode of intercolumnations, though in too many instances, they differ widely from it, and the same may perhaps be said of the Egyptian colonnades.”