to the great thickness and fire-stained, but intact as to their structural integrity, amid the leveled ruins of the older buildings, calls up mass of the masonry to give it independent stability, vividly and at once a visit which the writer made to and that it was not very strongly tied into the… … the ordinary course of nature, the important buildings of San Francisco such as this stood generally upon foundations which reached down to the underlying rock, the tower would have been left standing practically The modern :steel-skeleton building has abundantly or to a bearing upon astratum which…
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