Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds ; adapted to North America (1847)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York ; London : Wiley and Putnam · leaf 132
ecessary to sustain the pressure, and shed the snowperfectly, and it should always, therefore, be boldly exposed, and rendered orna-mental in domestic architecture. Some of our builders seem to havr a farcicalhorror of a roof, or a chimney top (derived from the study of Greek temples !),and conceal… … [Fig. 40.] nicely fitting valve at g. When it isdesired to allow the water to rushdown into the basin, it is only neces-sary to pull the string h; which, if thecistern be at a distance, may passover several pulleys, according to thenumber of angles in its course. Inorder to insure the descent of a…
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