The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 270
performed, as there is everyre;tson to think, by the expansion of \WOoden wedges saturated withwater. The cylindrical courses for the shafts of the columns were extracted(as may be observed at the quarries of Selinus, in Sicily, a plan ofwhich, as well as of its elevation, I herewith send you in… … Plan and View of Stone Quarries at SELINUNTUM Plan & Section of Parthenon Column
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