Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 92
MONUMENT 77 selves tells us absolutely nothing of all this. The cablesimply disappears on one side and reappears on theother, as if it were two separate cables, one on eacht side, instead of one continuous chain. Look at thissection of the top of the tower, and see how an exquisiterefinement of… … whatever to do with the purpose for which the structureexists. Is it not perfectly evident that an architecturalexpression of this mechanical arrangement woul^l requirethat the line of the summit, instead of this meaninglessHat coping, should, to begin with, be a crest of roof, itsdouble slope…
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