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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 92

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h degree of perfection. 188.—The Doric Order is so ancient that its origin is un-known—although some have pretended to have discovered it.But the most general opinion is, that it is an improvement uponthe original log huts of the Grecians. These no doubt were veryrude, and perhaps not unlike the… … Fig. 109. which rest upon the architrave, the triglyphs; the tree laid onthe cross-beams as a support for the ends of the rafters, the bed-moulding of the cornice ; the ends of the rafters which projectbeyond the bed-moulding, the mutules; and perhaps the projectionof the roof in front, to screen…

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