London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 192
all round withinthe trough, making it project 3 in. or thereabouts into the trough,and keep the surface of the water about 3 in. below the frame.By this method no rat of the ordinary size can get a drop. To prevent them from getting up into the roof; let a flag-stone be projected over each of the… … Art. IX. Architectural Maxim, When the first impression made by a building is of an un-decided character, so that we feel at a loss what to say of it,the presumption is, that it is bad. There is evidently, in sucha case, a want of unity of effect, and of decision of expression,which always…
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