even then werevery sparingly applied, being onlyinserted for the purpose of turningarches or in making bands tostrengthen their other materials.These bands consisted of three orfour courses of tiles laid throughthe wall, and were placed at twoor three feet from eaoh other, tb Fig. intermediate… … 231 the walls of Yerulam, Colchester,Chesterford, London, and other plates, were built; and Stowe, in his accountof the repair of part of London wall, gives the size of these bricks as measuring17j inches long, 11J incites wide, and one inch and a quarter thick, THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS…
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