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)
Stuart, Robert, Stuart, Robert · New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. ... Cincinnati:--H.W. Derby · leaf 45
They are always placedon the top of some beautiful roundhill which is surrounded withrows of trees called azz (the Vir-ginia cedar), and which grow inthis climate to great beauty andperfection. This plantation ofcedar is interspersed at properdistances with a number of thetrees called cusso. All… … placed to support the edifice; about8 feet of the roof projectingbeyond the wall of the church,which forms a colonnade or anagreeable walk in hot or rainyweather. The inside of the build-ing is formed in several divisions,according as is prescribed by thelaw of Moses : the first, of a…
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