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Cyclopedia of architecture, historical, descriptive, typographical, decorative, theoretical and mechanical, alphabetically arranged, familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of workmen, etc., etc. By Robert Stuart [pseud.] ... Two volumes in one. .. (1854)

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s of art. What-ever era may be assigned to them,opinions seem to coincide thatthey were the work of Grecianartists; and what gives additionalstrength to the conjecture, is thefact of its having been the cus-tom of the ancient Abyssinianemperors to procure artificers otthe Greek nation from… … The pillars are octagonal, andare supposed to exhibit, in theirform and finish, traces of theworkmanship of the lower Romanempire. The seat is of granite,as well as the pavement and pil-lars, and it is supposed that, for-merly, the pillars were crownedwith small images, probably ofmetal, of the Dog…

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