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224 AECHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND. Pakt II. occur at Melrose and elsewhere. For canopies of tombs and such like purposes, the circular arch is almost as common as the pointed. Other examples are found at lona, though there the buildings are nearly as exceptional and continental in design as Roslyn itself — the circular pier-arch is used with the mouldings of the 13th century, and the pointed arch is placed on a capital of intertwined dragons, more worthy of a Runic cross or tombstone than a Gothic edifice. The tower windows are filled with a quatrefoil tracery (Woodcut No. 660), 661. Aisle in Trinity Chui-ch, Ediuburgli. in a manner very unusual, and a mode of construction is adopted which does not perhaps exist anywhere else in Britain. The whole group, in fact, is as exceptional as its situation, and as remote from the usual modes of architecture on the mainland. The early Scotch vaults, as already mentioned, were singularly bold and massive, and all their mouldings were characterized by strength and vigor, as shown in the examples taken from Glasgow and Dunfermline (Woodcuts Nos. 640, 655). At a later pei-iod, how-