London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 86
thestrap with the collar-beams, &c., seem calculated to produce apressure on the middle of the beams, rather than, like thehanging beam, to suppoit them in that part. As to screws,cramps, braces, holdfasts, or iron-work of any kind, to givestrength to the connecting members, there are none… … 10 ;o .?o 3QJ consequence of the repairs of theshingle roofing having been neg-lected. Under the beams, whichwere 35 ft. long, there was, in themiddle, a support 9 in. high, whichlay 43 ft. free, with only a verysmall resting-place at one end ; 3etnot the least sinking, either of thesupport, or the…
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