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The Architectural review and American builders' journal (1869)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, Lukens, Charles J · [Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger] · leaf 532

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astate of things brings forcibly to mindthe Egyptian theory of the world rest-ing on the back of an elephant, and thatpatient animal standing on a tortoise,whilst the tortoise rests on nothing!Thus, the piers in the superstructure areworse than meaningless, for they rest onno apparent support…

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