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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 741

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cceeded, Pliny tells us to the old painted Party Walls. Partitions of brick betweenbuildings, in several occupations. Pate. In fortification, a kind of platform inshape of an horse-shoe, encompassed only with aparapet, and, having nothing to plank it, usuallyerected in marshy grounds to cover a… … pavements which originated in Greece. Many spe-cimens have been found in various parts of Eng-land, as well as in every part of the continentwhich was under the Roman dominion,

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