The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 105
e their great solidity and durability. The dimensionsand extent of the buildings may be judged from the temple ofJupiter at Thebes, which was 1400 feet long and 300 feet wide—exclusive of the porticos, of which there was a great number. It is estimated by Mr. Gliddon, U. S. consul in Egypt, that… … ARCHITECTURE. 89 feet long, and polished with emery to a surprising degree. It isconjectured that the stone for these pyramids was brought, byrafts and canals, from a distance of 6 or 7 hundred miles. 207.—The general appearance of the Egyptian style of archi-tecture is that of solemn…
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