Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 92
ves 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 eachside, instead of one continuous chain. Look at thissection of the top of the tower, and see how an exquisiterefinement of mechanical… … whatever to do with the purpose for which the structureexists. Is it not perfectly evident that an architecturalexpression of this mechanical arrangement would requirethat the line of the summit, instead of this meaninglessflat coping, should, to begin with, be a crest of roof, itsdouble slope…
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