of little im-portance, provided that no two joints are made to come together.As however, the majority of skew arches are constructed of brick withstone fronts, the cross joints then become of greater moment; as itis always desirable to obtain an equality of pressure, by making thebearing surfaces… … the diagram fig. 7, the beds of the stones being indicated by the let-ters A A. In Mr. Foxs essay, this evil is proposed to be remediedby making the beds of the stones of equal length in the middle, asshown in fig. 8, where the equal lengths are indicated by the dottedlines. This plan however is…
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